QuarkXPress 1

Please note: This course has been discontinued, but may still be offered as an In-Company programme tailored to your organisation. Please call us on 020 8874 2718 or complete this form to discuss your requirements.

Many regard QuarkXPress as the industry standard page make-up and design tool. If you haven't used this software before, this introductory course covers the basics necessary for creating and editing documents.

You will:

  • develop new skills, fast
  • return to work able to produce and improve your own material
  • be able to talk to designers and typesetters with greater confidence.

This course offers you sole use of a PC and we restrict the number of delegates to guarantee a high level of personal tuition and assistance.

Programme

  • Overview of tools
  • Changing your view of a document and using palettes
  • Importing and working with text
  • Working with styles
    • Paragraph
    • Character
    • Importing styles
    • QuarkXPress tags
  • Document construction (basic)
    • Using the document layout palette
    • Automatic text flow
    • Master pages and page numbering
    • Creating and using sections
  • Using find and change
  • Checking spelling
    • User dictionaries
  • Setting preferences
    • Application
    • Document
  • Working with graphics
    • Importing graphics
    • Integrating text and graphics
    • Resizing and cropping graphics
    • Collect for output
    • Save page as EPS
  • Creating single page or short documents efficiently
  • Creating PDFs