QuarkXPress Power Shortcuts: Productivity Shortcuts for QuarkXPress 4 and 5

by: David Blatner

On-line Price: $15.95 (includes GST) Paperback package 176 70%Off Retail Price You save: $37.00 CLEARANCE Item - Special discount -limited stock _____________________ N.Sydney : In Stock	Retail Price: $52.95 Publisher: PEACHPIT PRESS,April-2002 Category: QUARKXPRESS Level: I/A ISBN: 0789724332 ISBN13: 9780789724335
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Book Description

  Creativity has its place, but when you're up against a deadline, it's speed that counts. A model of efficiency,QuarkXPress Power Shortcuts is a comprehensive guide to all of the known time-saving key-stroke shortcuts in the last two versions of QuarkXPress. Written by acclaimed Quark expert David Blatner, this compact, economical, no-frills book is packed from cover to cover with key-stroke combos that speed up everyday tasks and make using QuarkXPress easier. Organized by menu and topics, the book includes mouse equivalents for both Macintosh and Windows users. Plus, you get key-stroke combos for hidden Easter eggs, power workflow tips, and more. With QuarkXPress Power Shortcuts, the answers you need to increase productivity are right at your fingertips.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

  Using This Book. Windows Versus Macintosh. Get a Macro Program. First Steps in Cutting Corners.

      1. Palettes.

  Tool Palette. Measurements Palette. Document Layout Palette. Style Sheets Palette. Colors Palette. Book Palette. Hyperlink Palette. Layers Palette. Other Palettes. General Palette Tricks.

      2. Interface.

  The XPress Environment. Selecting Items. Dialog Boxes. Tabs and Rulers.

      3. Menus.

  File Menu. Edit Menu. Style Menu. Item Menu. Page Menu. View Menu. Utilities Menu.

      4. Moving.

  Scrolling. Moving Selected Items. Zooming and Magnification.

      5. Text.

  Moving Through Text. Selecting Text. Deleting Text. Character Formats. Paragraph Formats. Special Formatting Characters. Find/Change Characters.

      6. Pictures and Lines.

  Changing the Picture. Modifying Boxes. Bézier Editing. Importing Pictures. Lines.

      7. Easter Eggs.

  Hidden Featurettes.

      8. Function Keys.

9. Context-Sensitive Menus.

10. Special Characters.

  Zapf Dingbats Fonts.

      11. ANSI Keyboard Commands.

12. Ten Best-Kept Secrets.

Index.

  David Blatner is a Seattle-based graphic arts consultant specializing in QuarkXPress and Photoshop. He is the author or co-author of a number of books from Peachpit Press, including The QuarkXPress Book, Real World Photoshop, Real World Scanning and Halftones, and Real World QuarkImmedia.

  He speaks at conferences and seminars around North America and Japan, including Seybold, Macworld, The Photoshop Conference, and The QuarkXPress Conference.

  David can provide in-house seminars at your company on subjects such as 'QuarkXPress and Photoshop Tips and Tricks' and 'Getting Your QuarkXPress Documents Online.'

  You can contact David at david@moo.com.