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Next Courses: 
                           
Tuesday & Wednesday 3rd & 4th June 2008 – Guildford Surrey

Price:£415 + vat – Inclusive of course reference notes, 
lunch and refreshments and unlimited email support
following your training.

Places available for users of versions 4, 5, 6 
This 2-day QuarkXPress training course is designed for new users who wish to learn QuarkXPress and 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.
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This QuarkXPress training course is designed for new users who wish to learn QuarkXPress and 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.)

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  • The Traditional Publishing Process
  • The Desktop Publishing Process using QuarkXPress

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  • The QuarkXPress Toolbox
  • The Measurements Palette
  • Setting QuarkXPress Application and Document Preferences
  • The Pasteboard

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  • QuarkXPress Document Setup
  • Setting up the Master Page
  • Automatic Page Numbering
  • Saving your Work
  • Retrieving (Opening) Documents

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  • What is an "Item" in QuarkXPress?
  • Picture Boxes
  • Text Boxes
  • Lines
  • Reshaping Boxes
  • Framing Boxes

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  • 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

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  • Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively
  • Setting Leading (Inter-Line space) Appropriately
  • Typesetting for maximum readability

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  • Getting (Importing) Pictures from other applications into a QuarkXPress document
  • Modifying Picture Boxes
  • Cropping, Sizing and Scaling Pictures
  • Fitting Pictures to Boxes
  • Wrapping Text Around Pictures

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  • Inserting a Table in a QuarkXPress document

  • Setting Table Cell Content Properties

  • Combining & Splitting Table Cells

  • Inserting/Deleting Rows & Columns

  • Setting the Grid & Border Properties

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  • Setting-up Running Headers and Footers
  • Inserting Page Numbers

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  • 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)
  • Font Usage
  • The Measurement Palette
  • The Library Feature
  • The Document Layout Palette

  • Creating Hyperlinks to external URLs
  • Creating internal Document Hyperlinks

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  • Creating and Saving QuarkXPress Document Templates
  • Creating New QuarkXPress Documents based on Templates
  • Modifying QuarkXPress Templates

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  • Applying, Editing and Creating Colours
  • Using Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards
  • Converting Pantone Colours to Process CMYK Colours

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  • Print options
  • Saving Postscript Files for output by remote service Bureau
  • Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts and Picture Formats