Wed, Jun 18, 2008
In QuarkXPress 6 and above, you can easily duplicate an item directly on top of itself, or into the same position on another page.
Here’s how: first copy it (Command/Ctrl-C), then choose Edit> Paste In Place (Mac: Shift-Option-Command-V or Win: Shift-Alt-Ctrl-V).
The item will be pasted into the same position on whatever page you’re currently displaying.
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June 24th, 2008 at 7:37 am
To be exact, Paste In Place pastes in place based on spread coordinates, not page.
So if you have something on a right hand page and you want to cut and paste it onto a left hand page, you still have to do some fiddling.
There was an XT (I think it was called PasteIt?) back in v3.3 that would allow exact pasting based on PAGE coordinates. Miss having that.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:44 am
You’re right! And it is annoying to not have control over that. Hey Quark, are you listening?
And indeed, PasteIt was a free XTension, circa 1997, that did exactly that.
I suppose that a workaround would be this:
After using Paste In Place, if you wanted to paste the item onto the “other” page of the spread, just add or subtract the width of the page from the X coordinate in the Measurements palette.
You can do that by just typing a + or - after whatever value is in there, and then type in the width of the page. Quark will do the math for you.