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QuarkXpress Level 1

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Date Location Duration Cost
01 Sep 2010 (Wed)
02 Sep 2010 (Thu)		 Washington 2 £ 495
18 Oct 2010 (Mon)
19 Oct 2010 (Tue)		 Washington 2 £ 495
24 Feb 2011 (Thu)
25 Feb 2011 (Fri)		 Washington 2 £ 495
14 Apr 2011 (Thu)
15 Apr 2011 (Fri)		 Washington 2 £ 495
27 Jun 2011 (Mon)
28 Jun 2011 (Tue)		 Washington 2 £ 495

Please contact us to discuss private course dates and locations

Course Overview

This course is an introduction to page layout using QuarkXpress. We will guide you through a wide variety of techniques used for creating single page newsletters to multi-page presentations.

Prerequisites

Follow on Courses

Training Options

  • Scheduled public courses at one of our training venues
  • Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377

What's Included

  • 1 delegate per computer
  • Telephone and email support
  • Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
  • Comprehensive course manual and exercises

Course Content

Creating a new document

    Viewing options and shortcuts
    Using guidelines
    Palettes and their keyboard shortcuts
    Customising the tools palette
    Item and content tool models

Creating items

    Drawing rectangular items
    Positioning items
    Resizing items
    Rotating items

Text

    Inputting text
    Viewing invisibles
    Selecting text
    Undo, cut, copy, and paste
    Importing text

Typography

    Selecting fonts & font sizes
    Scaling text
    Kerning/tracking
    Leading
    Baseline shift

Formatting text

    Indents
    Space before/after
    Working with drop caps

Positioning text within an item

    Text alignment
    Text insert
    First baseline
    Vertical alignment
    Flipping text

Text columns

    Multiple column boxes
    Linking/unlinking text boxes
    Controlling text flow

Tabs & tables

    Inserting tabs
    Setting tab ruler markers
    Adding/deleting tabs
    Adding fill characters
    Using paragraph rules

Applying Colour

    Adding frame
    Using the colours palette
    Using item-modify for colour
    Using graduated blends

Lines

    Creating straight lines
    Modifying straight lines

Pictures

    Rectangular/oval picture boxes
    Importing pictures
    Resizing/scaling pictures
    Picture file formats

Basic runaround options

    Use of none and items modes
    Aligning text to picture bounds, auto image and embedded paths
    Working with multiple items
    Duplicate, step and repeat
    Working with layers
    Selecting through layers
    Selecting multiple items
    Locking items
    Introduction to colour
    Creating and naming colours

Creating a new library

    Copying to and from a library
    Listing library contents

Introduction to style sheets

    Creating character and paragraph styles
    Applying styles
    Duplicating styles
    Using based on styles

Introduction to master pages

    Single and spread masters
    Modifying master items
    Automatic page numbering
    Using multiple master pages