QuarkXPress Training Course – Introduction

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QuarkXPress Training Course – Introduction

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Free

6 Students
Duration: 1 day
Certificate of Completion

Learn QuarkXPress the easy way in our Introduction QuarkXpress Course

Are you still paying a design agency or marketing company to produce you publications? You may have tried to create simple documents, such as letters, reports, newsletter, using word processing applications. You most likely applied basic type formatting, included some graphics in the documents and printed the documents yourself on a desktop printer. Now you need to learn how to create high-quality single-and multiple-page documents for professional publication.

During this course, you will get the secrets and tricks the agencies don’t want you to know, plus how to use QuarkXPress to lay out professional quality documents that include text and graphics, that are designed for professional printing, in-house printing and the web.

1 Day Introduction QuarkXPress     £250.00  Discounts are available for 2nd & 3rd delegates and Group bookings.

Course Content

  • Understand and apply basic functions in Quark
  • Apply advanced page construction using master pages, libraries and templates
  • Understand typographical content
  • Q&A
  • FREE Detailed Course Training Manual in PDF format (one per course) Normal cost £50.00
  • Refreshments (at in2)
  • Training Course Certificate
  • 6 Month’s Technical Support
  • Automatic enrolment into our customer discount reward scheme

Who is the target audience?

  • This course is intended for anyone interested in learning how to master QuarkXPress to create brochures, flyers, adverts.
  • This course is aimed at beginners, so no previous experience with desktop publishing or design necessay

Course Guidelines - Click Activity to Expand Content

  • Layout Basics
  • Creating a project and importing content
  • Opening a project
  • Working with text content
  • Working with picture content
  • Box basics
  • Creating rectangular boxes
  • Creating circular and oval boxes
  • Creating star-shaped boxes
  • Using ShapeMaker
  • Text Basics
  • Creating text boxes
  • Entering text
  • Importing text
  • Formatting text
  • Editing text
  • Picture Basics
  • Creating and resizing a picture box
  • Importing a picture
  • Modifying picture size
  • Running text around a picture
  • Managing imported pictures
  • Stacking, Spacing, and Layers
  • Controlling stacking order
  • Spacing and aligning items
  • Creating a new layer
  • Showing and hiding a layer
  • Moving items between layers
  • Locking a layer / Printing layers
  • Colour Basics
  • Creating a CMYK colour
  • Creating a spot colour
  • Creating a Web-safe colour
  • Applying colours to text and pictures
  • Applying colours to frames and box backgrounds
  • Creating a blend
  • Editing a colour
  • Table basics
  • Creating a table
  • Adding text
  • Using Auto Fit controls
  • Linking text cells manually
  • Linking text cells automatically
  • Adding a picture
  • Adding and deleting rows
  • Adding and deleting columns
  • Editing a table frame, border, and grids
  • Editing table cells
  • Resizing rows, columns, and entire tables manually
  • Converting text to a table
  • Importing a table
  • Splitting a table
  • Updating imported table content
  • Printing basics
  • Preparing to print
  • Using basic print commands
  • Printing colour composites
  • Creating a colour composite output style
  • Printing colour separations
  • Creating a colour separation output style
  • Updating missing or modified pictures
  • Collecting files for output

  • Master pages, page numbers, and sections
  • Creating a master page automatically
  • Displaying a master page / Modifying a master page
  • Creating automatic page numbers
  • Creating a new master page
  • Applying master pages to layout pages
  • Separating layouts into sections
  • Renaming and deleting a master page
  • Libraries
  • Creating a new library
  • Adding an entry to a library
  • Working with library entry labels
  • Using a library
  • Templates
  • Examining a project structure
  • De-constructing a project
  • Saving as a template
  • Palette sets
  • Creating a palette group
  • Working with palette groups
  • Creating a palette set for text editing
  • Creating a palette set for image-handling
  • Special characters
  • Inserting glyphs
  • Saving glyphs as favourites
  • Inserting special characters
  • Working with automatic ligatures
  • Working with OpenType fonts and styles

  • Style sheets
  • Creating a “base” character style sheet
  • Creating a special-formatting character style sheet
  • Creating a paragraph style sheet
  • Basing a paragraph style sheet on another style sheet
  • Applying style sheets
  • Performing a “clean apply” of a style sheet
  • Updating a style sheet from local formatting
  • Editing a style sheet
  • Vertical and horizontal spacing
  • Adjusting leading
  • Adjusting space before and after paragraphs
  • Using baseline shift
  • Specifying indents
  • Using hanging characters
  • Creating hanging character classes and sets
  • Adjusting tracking
  • Adjusting kerning
  • Tabs
  • Inserting a right-indent tab and adding a fill character
  • Setting tabs numerically Setting tabs visually
  • Rules and drop caps
  • Applying rules to paragraphs
  • Applying rules through paragraph style sheets
  • Applying drop caps to paragraphs
  • Formatting drop caps
  • Hyphenation and justification
  • Controlling hyphenation and justification
  • Inserting a discretionary hyphen
  • Adding hyphenation exceptions

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