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Take a new direction with your tables

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Take a new direction with your tables (QuarkXPress)

Sometimes you need to convert a horizontal table to a vertical table or vice versa. Rather than deleting cells, adding cells, copying data, pasting data, and deleting the old data after you move it to the new location, there’s an easier way. QuarkXPress has options in [...]

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Use Jabberwocky to quickly fill your text boxes

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Use Jabberwocky to quickly fill your text boxes (QuarkXPress)

For those of you not up on children’s literature, Jabberwocky is a form of gibberish. In QuarkXPress, it’s an Xtension that makes adding dummy text fast and customizable. When you’re doing a rough layout and you need to fill some text boxes in your project, you can [...]

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Save QuarkXpress files to prevent data loss

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Save your QuarkXpress files in different formats to prevent data loss (QuarkXPress)

If you find that your QuarkXPress documents frequently become corrupt and you have trouble opening them, it’s a good idea to export your QuarkXPress file to other formats, such as PDF or EPS. If the document can be accessed through [...]

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Quickly Add Color to Table Components in QuarkXPress

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Add color quickly to your table components (QuarkXPress)

Here’s a quick-and-easy way to apply color to the various components of a table. First, click on the table with the Content tool. Next, drag a color from the Colors palette and drop it over a cell, gridline, or border line. Then, press the [command] key ([Ctrl] key [...]

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