Tips and Tricks

There's so much more to QuarkXPress® 7 software than meets the eye, and these tips and tricks will give you a basic understanding of the new features so that you can start using them to change the way you work. For more in-depth information about the new features and improvements in QuarkXPress 7, consult your software documentation.

Download 250 essential tips and tricks in the Insider’s Guide to QuarkXPress 7.

You can use these tips and tricks as reference when you are working with QuarkXPress 7, or you can review them to uncover the new features that will most improve your workflow and designs.

QuarkXPress 7

• Access special characters from the Utilities menu
• Apply an embossed effect to text
• Apply picture effects to an alpha mask
• Apply runaround to your drop shadows
• Apply split-screen view
• Assign improved locking to content and position
• Create a color within the Measurements palette
• Create single-layout projects
• Embed fonts into an EPS file
• License Transfer
• Maintain picture attributes
• QuarkXPress 7 provides built-in access to the PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE® coated libraries
• Read colors by using a color picker inside QuarkXPress
• Select even or odd rows or columns in a table
• Space and align objects relative to each other, the page, or a spread
• Synchronize the angle of a drop shadow
• Understanding the PANTONE ® Color numbering system