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Quark XPress Introductory Training Course Duration

This QuarkXPress training course is designed for new users wishing to learn QuarkXPress and who have little or no previous experience of QuarkXPress or desktop publishing. Starting from first principles, delegates will be led through the procedures for creating new documents and modifying existing ones, and will consolidate their knowledge by means of a series of carefully constructed exercises at each stage. At the end of the course, delegates should feel confident and enthusiastic about using QuarkXPress to create a range of simple but well laid-out documents including short, design-intensive publications such as flyers, leaflets and newsletters, through to longer single chapter books, catalogues and brochures.

This QuarkXPress training course can be tailored to a clients particular needs.

During this QuarkXPress training course you will learn about:
(Some topics are not applicable to users of earlier versions of QuarkXPress.)

Quark express Introductory Training Course Overview of DTP
  • The Traditional Publishing Process
  • The Desktop Publishing Process using QuarkXPress

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course User Interface

  • The QuarkXPress Toolbox
  • The Measurements Palette
  • Setting QuarkXPress Application and Layout Preferences
  • The Pasteboard
  • QuarkXPress Project Setup
  • Setting up the Master Page
  • Automatic Page Numbering
  • Saving your Work
  • Retrieving (Opening) Projects and Layouts

Quark express Introductory Training Course, Working with Items
  • What is an "Item" in QuarkXPress?
  • Picture Boxes
  • Text Boxes
  • Lines
  • Tables
  • Reshaping Boxes
  • Framing Boxes

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course Text Editing

  • Getting (Importing) Text created in other applications into a QuarkXPress document
  • Modifying Text Box Attributes
  • Formatting Text
  • Word Processing Features – Search and Replace, Find, Spell Check
  • Linking and Unlinking Text Boxes
  • Setting Tabs
  • Drop Caps and Bullets

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course, Printing & Typesetting Terminology
  • Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively
  • Setting Leading (Inter-Line space) Appropriately
  • Typesetting for maximum readability

Quark express Introductory Training Course Picture Handling
  • Getting (Importing) Pictures from other applications into a QuarkXPress Layout
  • Modifying Picture Boxes
  • Cropping, Sizing and Scaling Pictures
  • Fitting Pictures to Boxes
  • Wrapping Text Around Pictures

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course, Tables

  • Inserting a Table in a QuarkXPress Layout

  • Setting Table Cell Content Properties

  • Linking Cells

  • Linking Tables to External Data

  • Combining & Splitting Table Cells

  • Inserting/Deleting Rows & Columns

  • Setting the Grid & Border Properties

  • Updating Tables containing Linked Data

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course Headers & Footers
  • Setting-up Running Headers and Footers
  • Inserting Page Numbers

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course, Long Document Handling
  • Paragraph Style Sheets – Creating, Editing and Applying
  • Character Style Sheets – Creating, Editing and Applying
  • Using the Automatic Text Box
  • Hyphenation and Justification (H&J's)
  • The Measurement Palette
  • The Library Feature
  • The Page Layout Palette

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course, Hyperlinks

  • Creating Hyperlinks to external URLs
  • Creating internal Document Hyperlinks

Quark express Introductory Training Course, Templates
  • Creating and Saving QuarkXPress Project Templates
  • Creating New QuarkXPress Projects based on Templates
  • Modifying QuarkXPress Templates

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course, Colour Issues
  • Applying, Editing and Creating Colours
  • Using Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards
  • Converting Pantone Colours to Process CMYK Colours

Quark XPress Introductory Training Course, Printing & Output
  • Print options
  • Saving Postscript Files for output by remote service Bureaux
  • Output to PDF
  • Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts and Picture Formats

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