Learning QuarkXPress 6 is a workshop developed for beginning QuarkXPress users. It is intended to help those interested in page design learn the basic tools and features of this powerful program. You will learn the fundamentals of using the tools, setting up pages, working with text, working with graphics, outputting to PDF and much more. Get up to speed quickly with this time-tested professional page design programme.

Course Title: Introduction To QuarkXPress
Duration: 4.5 hours of 1 hourly lessons, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
Cost: £35 per lesson, per hour
Pre-requisites: None - Basic keyboard and PC skills are part of the course.

Course Profile: The 1 hour lessons are tutor-led by a QuarkXPress Specialist with over twenty years computer training experience in the print and publishing sector.

We are happy to vist at home or business, and training can take place on your own PC or Mac running QuarkXPress.

After this QuarkXPress Training course attendees will be able to:

• Understand fundamentals of page creation
• Manipulate and build pages
• Produce hi resolution PDF's for print and publishing

Please note all our computer courses are bespoke. Although it states the course duration times below, please remember this is an indication only.

You may choose to take as few a number or many lessons, covering options from the catergories as listed below. The duration of each course is a guide only.

Course contents

Introduction and Overview
the work area
navigating
using undo
measurement
working with items

The Tools
item tool
content tool
textbox tool
bezier textbox tool
freehand textbox tool
textpath tool
rotate tool
line tool
tables tool
linking tools
scissors tool
starburst tool

Setting Up Pages
creating a new project
adding pages
master pages
adding text and graphics

Working with Text
linking text
runaround
textbox frame color
dropcaps, tabs, rules
tracking, kerning, leading
stylesheets
synchronizing text
check spelling
turning text into a bezier box
fractions and prices
anchor boxes
special character jumplines

Working with Graphics
importing pictures
scaling and fitting a picture
clipping paths
working with color
combining boxes
putting frames around boxes
blended backgrounds
line colors
importing pdfs

Creating a Logo
creating a logo
Tables
reating new tables
text to table
converting tables to boxes

Lists, Indexes, Books and Libraries
lists
libraries
books
indexes

Web Documents
creating web documents
exporting into html

Printing and PDF's
collect for output
outputting to a pdf
printing