Unit B

Setting preferences and defaults

• You can use the Preferences dialog box to customize the Quark working environment so it suits your style. With it, you can have Quark automatically look in a specific folder for documents, or change the frequency with which documents are saved.

• Edit Preferences (Select Document or Application)

Adding text to a document

• In Figure 1 below, a page is shown from another Design Professional series book (the same series as the QuarkXPress book). Point out the following elements in the figure:

• Familiar screen areas such as the rulers and palettes (Tools, Measurements, Document Layout, Style Sheets, and Colors).

• The overlapping lesson title text, which is very difficult (if not impossible) to achieve in a word processing program.

• Green ruler guides• Margin, column, and ruler guides to which elements

are aligned.

Modifying and repositioning a text box

• In addition to dragging the sides of an object, students learn that the Measurements palette can also be used to make size and location adjustments

Copying and moving text

• In order to copy and move text, you can choose to

• Cut and paste using the Edit menu commands.

• Use the mouse to drag-and-drop selected text.