QuarkXpress Level 1
Course Type
Scheduled:
| Date |
Location |
Duration |
Cost |
26 Jun 2012 (Tue) 27 Jun 2012 (Wed) | Washington | 2 | £ 495 |
01 Aug 2012 (Wed) 02 Aug 2012 (Thu) | Washington | 2 | £ 495 |
16 Oct 2012 (Tue) 17 Oct 2012 (Wed) | Washington | 2 | £ 495 |
| All prices exclude VAT |
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Private
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| This outline is available as a private course. Please contact us to arrange this course at a venue and date of your choice. |
Private courses can be held at your site or one of our training venues, and can be customised to fit your requirements.
You can choose to have a private course based on an existing outline or you can choose the most applicable lessons from a number of different outlines and consolidate them into one course.
We can also write bespoke courses to fit your specific requirements, whether you require training on a standard application or a bespoke inhouse system.
Please contact us to discuss this further on 0191 377 8377.
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
Other courses in this series: 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
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
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