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QuarkXPress 7.0 - Part One
QuarkXPress Authorized Training Provider

Category: Desktop Publishing

Cost: $310 (1-Day Format) or $620 (2-Day Format)

Course Summary:

Explore the QuarkXPress interface. Work with tools and palettes; add text and pictures; modify text and picture boxes; learn how to create automatic and manual text links.

Prerequisite: Intro to Macintosh, Windows or equivalent.

Next Course of AACTTion: QuarkXPress - Part II
(Save 10% when registering for both)

Full Course Description: click here >> QuarkXPress - Part I

If you need any printable PDF material, please send a request via email or call 847-590-9500.

Date

Day

Time

Duration

MAY 14, 2008

WEDNESDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

1 - DAY(S)

MAY 19 & 20, 2008

MONDAY & TUESDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

2 - DAY(S)

JUN 05, 2008

THURSDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

1 - DAY(S)

JUN 09 & 10, 2008

MONDAY & TUESDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

2 - DAY(S)

JUL 07 & 08, 2008

MONDAY & TUESDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

2 - DAY(S)

JUL 21, 2008

MONDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

1 - DAY(S)

AUG 04 & 05, 2008

MONDAY & TUESDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

2 - DAY(S)

AUG 25, 2008

MONDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

1 - DAY(S)

SEP 08 & 09, 2008

MONDAY & TUESDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

2 - DAY(S)

SEP 24, 2008

WEDNESDAY

9:00AM - 4:00PM

1 - DAY(S)

Dates, prices and course outlines are subject to change without notice.

QuarkXPress Part I - Course Description
 

The QuarkXPress Environment

  • QuarkXPress basics
  • Greeking
  • Set application preferences
  • Palette Sets
  • Text and picture boxes
  • Customize a tool
  • The Zero Point

 

Text Basics

  • Working with text
  • Overflow text
  • Undo and Redo History
  • Modifying
  • Simple text editing
  • Selecting text
  • Moving text
  • Character attributes
  • Glyphs

 

Importing Text and Formatting Paragraphs

  • Importing text
  • Paragraph alignment
  • Paragraph spacing
  • Leading
  • Paragraph rules

 

Tabs, Frames and Insets

  • Set and move a Tab Stop
  • Set a Fill character
  • Add a Frame to a text box
  • Set Inset spacing and vertical justification

 

Picture Basics

  • Picture formats
  • Import a picture
  • Move and crop a picture
  • Change the scale of a picture
  • Rotate and Skew
  • Add and modify a Drop Shadow
  • Add a picture to a layout

 

Working with Items

  • Standard and Super Repeating
  • Space/Align
  • Grouping and Ungrouping
  • Merging
  • Stacks
  • Shape Shifting

 

Automatic and Manual Text Links

  • Automatic text boxes
  • Navigating multi-page documents
  • Ruler Guides
  • Manually linking text boxes
  • Breaking and changing a link
  • Locking tools
  • Link text over multiple pages

 

One-Page Flyer Project

  • Multiple Column Text Frames
  • The Find/Change Command
  • Style Sheets: first look
  • Text Runaround
  • Spell Check
  • Collect for output
  • PDFs

 

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