To simplify the Tools palette in QuarkXPress 8 and above, Quark rethought how the tools work together. So, for the “box shapes” they simplified your choices to a rectangle, circle and starburst. To make a rounded-corner rectangle, create a rectangle… Read More

To select an object that is beneath another object in a stack of objects, do this: In InDesign: Command-click the stack. Each Command-click will select the next item down. In QuarkXPress: use Command-Option-Shift… instead. Read More

One powerful use of the Layout… feature in QuarkXPress is to save previous revisions of a document. For example, when you want to revise a Project that contains just one Layout (as most Projects do), rather than duplicating the entire Read More

Sometimes, a word won’t hyphenate at the end of a line where YOU would like it to break. Rather than typing in a hyphen, which will flow along with the word if the line re-wraps, use a “discretionary hyphen”: an… Read More

When you need to see what has changed in a QuarkXPress project, try AthenaSoft’s FusionXT… for QuarkXPress 9. This $79 XTension helps you compare and merge QuarkXPress project stories, assets, geometry and much more, side by side. Changes to the Read More

Quark has several brief videos that show how some of the new typography features work in QuarkXPress 9.5. Specifically, Bullets and Numbering lets you create Styles for bullets, numbering and outlines that can automate your formatting; Story Editor… lets you Read More

On Thursday, May 9, Quark is presenting a live eSeminar highlighting several of the new productivity-enhancing features in QuarkXPress 9. Details and registration information is below. Note that you can watch a recording of the event later if you register… Read More

If you have a need to produce lots of charts and graphs, or you need to produce them very quickly, look into Custom Flow Solutions’ HyperGraph…. This system exports graphs in several major file formats, including native Illustrator files Read More

In 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: Read More

Have you ever struggled to position a text-wrapping picture box because the text around it was jumping in giant increments? In other words, you put a picture box on the page, apply a text wrap to it, then move it… Read More

Quark has several brief videos that show how some of the new layout automation features work in QuarkXPress 9.5. Specifically, ImageGrid lets you import and automatically build catalogs of images, including captions containing file name, resolution and format; Conditional Styles… Read More

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New in QuarkXPress 9.5.1 Boost your productivity, drive automated design, and go digital with QuarkXPress… Read More

It’s true: if you have any version of QuarkXPress (3 or higher), you can upgrade to version 9.5 for just $349. (QuarkXPress 3 is now more than 20 years old, so I feel justified in saying “any version”.) Visit Quark’s… Read More

The new ShapeMaker… feature in QuarkXPress 9 lets you create a wide variety of intricate and highly customizable shapes that can then be saved as presets. Real-time previews make it easy to see what you are creating as you develop Read More

Markzware has a new service that can convert a document from any version of QuarkXPress or InDesign to any version of QuarkXPress or InDesign. It can also convert Adobe Illustrator documents among versions, or Microsoft Publisher documents to ID or… Read More

QuarkXPress 8 and above selects an entire URL when you double-click any part of it, such as www.planetquark.com/category/learn/tip/. The entire text is selected and ready to be copied or formatted… the way you like it! Read More