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Align an Item to a Page Edge

In QuarkXPress 7 and 8, you can align selected items to a page edge by holding down Shift-Command and pressing the arrow keys. Give it a quick try. (Windows: Shift-Ctrl) You don’t need to use the Measurements palette for this trick, but you can if you want to: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F11%2F20%2Falign-an-item-to-a-page-edge%2F'; [...]

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A Simple Document Fix

If you have a QuarkXPress document that is exhibiting symptoms of damage, such as not printing correctly or crashing when accessing a picture or text, try this:  From within QuarkXPress, choose File> Open, select the document you want to fix, and then hold down Option (Windows: Alt) while you press the button labeled “Open” in the [...]

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QuarkXPress Text Shortcuts = Word’s Text Shortcuts

Here’s a little tip that may help you with text-related shortcuts in QuarkXPress: they’re almost all the same as the shortcuts in Microsoft Word. That’s because Quark adopted Word’s shortcuts when they wrote QuarkXPress back in the late 1980s. For example, want to check the spelling of a story? Press Command-Option-L (Windows: Ctrl-Alt L), for speLLLLLing, [...]

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