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Why Isn’t “Single Layout Mode” Sticky?

That’s the question I was asked. What they meant was: when they changed Quark’s preference to “Single Layout Mode” when no document was open, why didn’t it apply to all subsequently created documents? Well, yeah. That’s what I want to know. Contrary to the way Preferences works in every other case, if you set that preference [...]

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Auto Save Causes File Bloat

If your QuarkXPress 7 files are growing in size at a rapid rate, check to see if Auto Save is enabled. If so, disable it. Quark is working on a fix. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F04%2F07%2Fauto-save-causes-file-bloat%2F'; addthis_title = 'Auto+Save+Causes+File+Bloat'; addthis_pub = '';

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Microsoft’s Pesky .docx Files

Microsoft Word 2007 for Windows and Word 2008 for Mac save their files in a format that previous versions of Word cannot open. You’ll recognize them by their .docx filename extension. If you’re a Mac user and don’t yet have Word 2008, you can open these files from within Apple’s free TextEdit or Apple’s Pages [...]

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