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  Safe Style Sheet Editing

  4479 readersSometimes, you’re working with text that’s formatted with one Style Sheet, but you realize you want to change the formatting of a different Style Sheet. Unfortunately, if you click on the second Style Sheet, your current text will be tagged with that Style Sheet. Here’s the trick to editing a Style Sheet that’s different from

• How to Not Lose Italics and Bold

  477 readersWhen a little plus sign appears next to an entry on the Paragraph Style palette, designers want to clear that plus sign. Doing so, however, wipes away desired local text formatting as well as undesired. That is, unless you apply italics, bold, and oth...

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  Macworld Masterclass: Master QuarkXPress Style Sheets

  19061 readers At the Macworld UK website, Michael Burns presents a step-by-step process for creating and using character-based and paragraph-based Style Sheets. My favorite part is how to use Find/Change to replace locally styled text with Style Sheets. Here’s the introduction to the article: ———————— Consistency is key to any publication, whether it’s in print or interactive. Making sure

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  Macworld Masterclass: Master QuarkXPress Style Sheets

  17951 readers At the Macworld UK website, Michael Burns presents a step-by-step process for creating and using character-based and paragraph-based Style Sheets. My favorite part is how to use Find/Change to replace locally styled text with Style Sheets. Here’s the introduction to the article: ———————— Consistency is key to any publication, whether it’s in print or interactive. Making sure

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  QuarkXPress 9 Expert Tip: Bullets, numbering, and outline lists

  18918 readersIn Macworld UK, Michael Burns wrote helpful decriptions of 18 of the new features in QuarkXPress 9. Their editors have graciously allowed us to publish a few, including the one below. Be sure to catch all of them in “QuarkXPress 9 Expert Tips” here. ———————— Bullets, numbering, and outline lists Instead of manually inserting bullets

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  Create and Update Table of Contents in QuarkXPress & InDesign

  4579 readersBoth QuarkXPress and InDesign can generate a table of contents for you, based on a style sheet that you’ve applied to items in your document. In QuarkXPress, a TOC is one type of List, so you’ll use the Lists palette (Window> Lists). To create a new list, lick the palette menu in the upper right corner: In the

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  Update a Style from Existing Item in QuarkXPress

  7209 readersIn QuarkXPress 8.1 and higher, you can update a Paragraph, Character, or Item Style from an existing page item: just click the Update button on the appropriate Style palette. Here’s how it looks on the Style Sheets palette: This will update the Style to match the altered page item. Notice that when you hover your mouse over the Update

• Control Text Wraps

  4083 readersIf the text wrap behavior of QuarkXPress isn’t doing what you’d like, you can change it. For example, if new page items are causing text to wrap, you can reverse their behavior. In QuarkXPress, double-click the icon in the Tools palette that you’d like to control (for example, a picture box). In the resulting dialog box,

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  Customize the Tools Palette!

  13852 readersIn QuarkXPress 8 and 9, the Tools palette clusters items more logically (such as the Text Box linking tools with the Text box tool): To move a tool out from under other tools and give it its own place in the Tools palette, just hold down the Control key and then click-and-hold on any tool. When

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  Compare Style Sheets in QuarkXPress

  3641 readersIn QuarkXPress, you can compare the definitions of two Style Sheets by choosing Edit> Style Sheets. Then hold down the Command key and select both styles in the Style Sheets dialog box. (Windows: Ctrl) The secret is to then hold down the Option/Alt key – the Append button will change to Compare. Click it and XPress will show each Style’s definition,