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BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES
92 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
attributes you want to change on the Change To side of the palette. You can
search on attributes in multiple panes at the same time.
The palette menu lets you put the selected item’s attributes into the Find What•
side of the palette. You can specify options in all the panes in the Item
Find/Change palette by choosing Acquire All Attributes or complete one pane
at a time by choosing Acquire Panel Attributes. You can use Clear All
Attributes and Clear Panel Attributes to clear panes.
The Summary pane summarizes the settings in all of the panes.•
The check boxes at the bottom of the palette let you restrict your search to•
specific types of items. To find and replace all types of items, leave all of these
b
oxes are unchecked.
When you click Find Next, Item Find/Change searches the entire layout from•
start to finish. To limit a search to the active spread, Option/Alt+click the Find
Next button.
Working with boxes
There are three types of boxes: Text boxes, picture boxes, and no-content boxes
(boxes with a content of None). All three box types can contain color, shades,
blends, and borders. When you draw a text box, picture box, or no-content box, the
available controls correspond to the box type you create. But you can import text
into picture boxes that contain pictures, and you can import pictures into text
boxes that contain text. In addition to changing content type, you can change the
shape and other attributes of a box.
Creating text and picture boxes
There are three ways to create boxes:
To create a no-content box (a box that can be changed into a picture box or a text•
box), click and drag with the Rectangle Box tool , the Oval Box tool , or the
Starburst tool . You can declare text content by pressing T as you draw a no-
content box. You can declare picture content by pressing R as you draw a
no-content box.
To create a rectangular text or picture box, click and drag with the Text Content•
tool or Picture Content tool .
To create a Bézier box, use the Bézier pen tool . For more information, see•
“
Creating Bézier boxes.”
To constrain rectangular boxes to squares and oval boxes to circles, press Shift while

you drag.
You can create boxes with the following tools:
To change a no-content box into a text box, press Command+E/Ctrl+E and import a
text file.
To change a no-content box into a picture box, press Command+E/Ctrl+E and
import a picture file.