Session #1  
(four sessions, each session is three hours)
  
I. Publication process
    A. New document
        1. Page size
        2. Column guides and gutters
        3. Margin guides
        4. Facing pages
        5. Automatic text box
    B. Master pages for repeating text and graphics
        1. Graphics
            a. Line tool, change line width
            b. Copy, paste rule for right master page
            c. Multiple item selecting: two 
            d. Align rules
        2. Footer: Enter and format text in text box
        3. Ruler guides: page guides & spread guides
    C. Importing text: automatic text linking
    D. Formatting text
        1. Highlight entire story
        2. Type specifications: character & paragraph attributes
    E. Working with graphics: picture boxes
        1. Importing graphic
        2. Scale graphic proportionally
            a. Numerically
            b. Visually
        3. Fitting graphic to picture box
        4. Crop graphic
 
II. Survival skills
    A. Item tool vs. Content tool: functions of each tool
    B. Navigating page to page
    C. Changing views: Magnify tool (and keyboard shortcuts)
    D. Scrolling: scroll bars and Grabber Hand
  
 
Session #2
   
I. Production process
    A. New: no automatic text box
    B. Master pages
        1. Set up text boxes for each column
            a. Step and Repeat with Duplicate
            b. Constrained move: keep original alignment
        2. Autolink text boxes manually to enable autoflow
        3. Automatic page numbering
        4. Get picture
        5. Control distance of text to picture box
    C. Import text
    D. Add pages manually
    E. Format body text with Measurements palette
    F. Create/modify text box for large reverse headline
        1. Size type from keyboard to fit full width
        2. Color text, text box background and box frame
        3. White type on color background
        4. Vertically center text in box
 
II. Word processing features
    A. See hidden characters: word spaces, returns, Tabs
    B. Check Spelling
    C. Find/Change
        1. Text cleanup: remove double spaces, returns
        2. Ensure that Quark searches entire story
        3. Word searches
        4. Attribute searches: replace underline with italic
 
III. Typographic features and type effects
    A. Paragraph spacing
    B. Hyphenation
    C. Tracking and kerning
        1. Measurements palette
        2. Default increments and small increments
    D. Horizontal and vertical scaling of text
        1. Using type specifications
        2. Scaling the text box
    E. Drop caps
    F. Rotate header: visually and numerically
    G. Text in a box
        1. Set box's frame width & color
        2. Set text inset from box frame
 
 

Session #3
   
I. One-page ad
    A. New
    B. Set up text boxes
        1. Draw & link boxes
        2. Import text
    C. Draw picturebox and import image
        1. Text wrap around irregular-shaped graphic
            a. Controlling boundary shape
            b. Add / delete point to the boundary
        2. Ensure that text wraps around picture box
    D. Paragraph attributes
        1. Paragraph spacing
        2. Auto indents on first lines of paragraphs
    E. Tabbed text in box with PMS colored frame
        1. Import tabbed text
        2. Indent text from box
        3. Adjust tab settings: positions, alignments, leader tabs
        4. Add a Pantone (spot) color to colors list
        5. Add frame weight, apply PMS color
 
II. Style sheets: fast formatting, consistent type specs, and easy changes
    A. What is a style sheet?
        1. Paragraph and character styles
        2. Benefits of styles
    B. Applying styles: most efficient method
    C. Modify a style's attributes
           - Character, Formats, Rules and Tabs
    D. Create a new style from scratch
    E. Local formatting and style sheets
    F. Import style sheets from another document
 
III. Graphics that flow with text as text is edited
    A. Insert picture boxes into text
        1. Method and rules
        2. Resize anchored box
        3. Rotate image inside anchored picture box
        4. Two ways to anchor
        5. Delete an anchored box
    B. Paragraph rules
        1. Attribute of a paragraph
        2. Options: rule length/width, indents, color, offset
 
 
Session #4
  
I. Customize program defaults
    A. Document preferences
    B. Application preferences
 
II. Newsletter layout: 3-column grid, no auto text box
    A. Avoid drawing endless text boxes
    B. Link story to inside page
        1. Continued on/Continued from page X
        2. Page numbers update automatically
    C. Unlink tool
 
III. Multiple items
    A. Distribute horizontally, Align vertically
    B. Grouping items: for moving and scaling
    C. Stacking order: select an object that's buried
    D. Locking items
 
IV. Changing your layout 
    A. Sorting pages
    B. Add and delete pages
        1. Add new single- or double-sided pages
        2. Delete pages
 
V. Working with color 
    A. Apply color from Measurement or Color palette
        1. Highlighted text
        2. Picture or text boxes
            a. Picture box: frame, image, background
            b. Text box: frame, text, background
            c. Tints and graduated fills ("blends")
    B. Apply color to text using style sheets
    C. Create new or edit existing colors
        1. Spot Color (Pantone)
        2. Process Color (Color Libraries)
 
VI. Libraries: store repeating items in standalone file
    A. Creating a Library file
    B. Copying items to and from Library
 
Note: additional topics may be added from a fifth session 
of Quark training which includes trapping basics (in Quark), 
templates, trouble-shooting, ten steps for prepping files 
for high-resolution output.

    
    
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