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Easy Credit Card Number Boxes

It’s easy to create a row of boxes for inputting credit card numbers on a form: Just use the ballot box glyph from the Webdings font, and then apply negative tracking to the boxes, so that their left and right edges overlap without doubling up. In QuarkXPress, use -12 in the tracking field in the Measurements [...]

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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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