From the course: QuarkXPress 2016 Essential Training
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Using item styles - QuarkXPress Tutorial
From the course: QuarkXPress 2016 Essential Training
Using item styles
- [Voiceover] If you have page elements with specific formatting that you reuse over and over again in your layouts, you can probably save a lot of time and effort by creating and applying item styles. Item styles work for items in much the same way that paragraph and character styles work for text. You set up a bunch of formatting options, and save them as a named style, that you can then apply with just a click to items in your layout. For example, in our exercise file we have three small pictures of cheese and the picture boxes are formatted quite differently. They differ in terms of size, position, frame, the opacity of the picture, rounded corners, drop shadows, and so on. And let's say that we needed to apply a look similar to this top blue box to the others. And these could actually be on different pages in the layout, I just put them all here on the same page, just to make things easier for the demonstration. What I can do is select the top box with the item tool, this one has…
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Working with boxes5m 47s
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Working with lines4m 27s
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Using the Bezier Pen tool4m 48s
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Moving and modifying items7m 58s
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Grouping items3m 45s
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Aligning items4m 40s
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Locking items2m 50s
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Using item styles4m 13s
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Converting imported PDFs to QuarkXPress items6m 37s
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Pasting from other applications5m 55s
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Using shape tools3m 55s
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