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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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Tip for Greeking Text

Kevin Siegel did a nice writeup of how to control when QuarkXPress displays text as a gray bar, rather than as actual letters — otherwise known as Greeking. Check it out at IconLogic’s blog here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F11%2F11%2Ftip-for-greeking-text%2F'; addthis_title = 'Tip+for+Greeking+Text'; addthis_pub = '';

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Fix Ugly Rags & Justification

When you set a block of type, the text wrap may need some tweaking if the line length is too short for the font size. (Rule of thumb: if the line length in picas is smaller than the font size in points, then character and word spacing will suffer.) Try these tips to smooth the [...]

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