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Faster Finds in QuarkXPress

To save time when using Find/Change or Item Find/Change, Tips for Item Find/Change Tips for QuarkXPress 8, shrink your document window before performing the search. That way, your computer only has to redraw a small area of your document each time it finds an occurrence, thus speeding up the display. Also, since the highlighted word appears [...]

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Automatic Numbers & Bullets in QuarkXPresss

Gluon’s ProBullets & Numbers is an XTension for QuarkXPress 6/7/8 that adds a feature that’s common in word processors: automatic bullets, numbers and indents. You select multiple paragraphs of text on a QuarkXPress page, then choose among bullets, various numbering schemes, and whether to indent or not. Bullets don’t even have to be bullets: they can [...]

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Tricks for Working with Office 2008 files

If you’re using Microsoft Office 2004 and you need to open files created with Office 2008, there are several programs on your Mac that you can use instead. For example, TextEdit can open and edit Word files, and if you have iWork, you can use Pages. Keynote can open PowerPoint files and Numbers can open Excel [...]

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QuarkXPress and Xdata Free With Purchase of QuarkXPress 8

I’ve mentioned the remarkable Xdata XTension many times, including this video, and now you can get it for free when you buy a new copy of QuarkXPress 8. Below is the announcement that explains it all… ———————— XChange UK and ThePowerXChange are pleased to announce a new promotion starting January 4th 2010 that offers users a free [...]

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