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Assign Shortcuts to Style Sheets

QuarkXPresss let you assign numeric keyboard shortcuts to individual style sheets — in other words, you can use a keystroke to assign a Style to text. To assign a shortcut to a style, open the Edit Style Sheets dialog box. You can do that by either choosing Edit> Style Sheets… or Control-clicking/right-clicking on the name [...]

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See True Page Numbers in Page Layout Palette

To begin a new section from the current page, choose Page> Section: Then type in the page number you want to assign to this page, and choose a page numbering scheme. The Page Layout palette in QuarkXPress displays page numbers as they are formatted in their Section. So, if your document begins with a new Section that [...]

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Small Caps vs. All Small Caps

The OpenType controls in QuarkXPress have two options for Small Caps: “Small Caps” and “All Small Caps”. (These options are available only in fonts that contain true small caps glyphs — otherwise these options have brackets around their name in the menu.)  The difference between them is that Small Caps makes only the lowercase letters into [...]

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