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Access Special Characters from the Utilities Menu

In the bad old days (before QuarkXPress 7), if you wanted to use a special character such as “current page number” or “indent here” or “Em dash”, you had to be initiated into the secret order of the Keyboard Shortcut Keepers. I exaggerate, but not much. There are approximately 1,547 keyboard shortcuts in QuarkXPress that don’t [...]

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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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