Quark Training Courses
Quark XPress is powerful layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine writing, editing, and typography with colour and pictures to produce dynamic final output. Quark XPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, typesetters, printers, corporate publishers, design firms, catalogue houses, book publishers, and form designers. It is also used by businesses with publishing requirements.
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Our Training Course Levels & Contents
Introduction
Advanced
Course Objectives - This course is designed to provide users with the skills to use Quark and understand the Quark environment
Overview
Creating and saving a document
Opening and Closing a file
Overview of features
Using the 'box' concept of page -layout
Measurements
Colours
Page set-up
Print Preview and Print
Using the help menu
Text handling
The XPress text box
Changing the style of text
Using style sheets
Tabs and indentation
Cut, Copy and Paste
Using Find and replace
Spell-checker
Automatic and manual text chains
Style sheets
Paragraph styles
Character styles
Defining style by example
Creating paragraph style
Setting character & paragraph attributes
Using Rules and tabs
Linking styles
Setting and Using keyboard shortcuts
Applying and updating styles
Tables
Creating tables
Formatting table cells
Adding images to tables
Inserting rows and columns
Setting gridlines
Convert Text to Table
Page layout
The document layout palette
Importing text and graphics
Modifying text and graphics boxes
Frame and runaround options
Step and repeat, Group and Lock
Creating and applying colours
Editing imported graphics
Embedding objects
Using master pages
Automatic page numbering
Creating sections in a document
Defaults and preferences
Colours
Defining new colours
Document vs. default colours
RGB vs. CMYK colours
Spot vs. process colours
Defining Pantone colours
Setting the fill colour
Applying colour to text
Typography
Kerning and tracking
Leading and baseline shift
Horizontal scale
Keyboard shortcuts
Text rotation
Vertical justification
Using the baseline grid
Course Objectives - Requires familiarity with QuarkXPress' tools, palettes and basic operations.
1-to-1 training courses are charged at £450 per day. (Our offices or your venue)
All IT training courses at our offices are charged at a daily rate of £695 per day, for 2 to 8 delegates.
We also offer training at your venue for £595 per day. If required, laptops are available at an additional £150 per day.
For courses outside the M25, trainer travel and accomodation expenses are not included in the above prices but are charged at cost.
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