Course Information
QuarkXPress is offered as a 4-day course. All classes begin at 9am.
Course Fee: $1050 per student
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Syllabus
Day 1
Creating a Document and Navigating in QuarkXPress
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- Quark environment
- Document setup
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- Creating and manipulating text boxes
- Creating and manipulating picture boxes
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Creating Multi-Page Documents
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- Picas measurement system
- Master pages
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- Creating additional pages
- Importing and flowing text
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Day 2
Linking Text Boxes and Formatting Type
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- Linking and unlinking text boxes
- Formatting type
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- Character formatting
- Paragraph formatting
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Working with Graphics and Finishing Touches
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- Importing graphics
- Runaround
- Frames
- Text inset
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- Defining colors
- Spell check
- Continuation page numbering
- Assigning master pages
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Day 3
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- Document and application preferences
- Customizing the tool palette
- Creating and naming master pages
- Changing master page margins
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- Creating automatic text boxes
- Applying master pages to multiple document pages
- Importing text
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Style Sheets
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- Paragraph style sheets
- Defining, editing, and creating style sheets
- Basing one style sheet on another
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- Importing style sheets with text
- Creating character style sheets
- Character style sheets within paragraph style sheets
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Day 4
Manipulating Text and Graphics
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- Find/change
- Anchoring items in text
- Tracking and kerning
- Resizing text interactively
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- Page elements and graphics
- Dragging items between documents
- Resizing and centering pictures
- Libraries
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Working with Bezier Shapes and Sectioning Documents
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- Freehand tools
- Bezier tools
- Editing Bezier paths
- Converting basic shapes to Bezier items
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- Removing box contents
- Combining Bezier shapes
- Text on a path
- Sectioning documents
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