2018

BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES
110 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
you use the Send to Back, Send Backward, Bring to Front, and Bring Forward
commands (Item menu), the stacking order of the items is altered within the layer.
To activate an item that is hidden behind other items, select the Item tool and
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press Command+Option+Shift/Ctrl+Alt+Shift while you click repeatedly at the
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oint where multiple items overlap. Pressing
Command+Option+Shift/Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking will successively activate
items from the front of the stacking order to the back.
Grouping items
You can combine multiple items on a page or spread into a single group. Grouping
items is useful when you want to select or move several items simultaneously. You
can move, cut, copy, duplicate, and perform a number of other functions on a
group. For example, you can group all the items that compose a publication
masthead; once grouped, you can modify or move the entire group as you would a
single box, line, or text path.
After you create a group, you can still edit, resize, and reposition individual items
while maintaining the group relationship. You can also place a copy of a group into
an open QuarkXPress library for use in other documents.
Items can be grouped when two or more items (lines, boxes, text paths, or other
groups) are active. To select multiple items with the Item tool , either Shift+click
each item or draw a marquee around the items you want to group. Choose Item >
Group (Command+G/Ctrl+G) to place multiple selected items into a single group.
You can group groups, and multiple-select a group (or groups) along with individual
boxes, lines, and text paths to create a larger group.
With the Item tool selected, you can move, cut, copy, paste, duplicate, rotate,
and color a group. With the Text Content tool or Picture Content tool
selected, you can manipulate individual items as you would any ungrouped item.
To move an item within a group, press Command/Ctrl and select the item with the
Item tool , the Text Content tool , or the Picture Content tool .
The active fields in the Measurement palette tabs will affect the active group.
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Choose Item > Ungroup (Command+U/Ctrl+U) to ungroup a single group, or Item
> Ungroup All to ungroup every group in a group that contains other groups.
Resizing grouped items
To resize every item in a group simultaneously, click and drag the group’s item
handles. If you press Command+Shift/Ctrl+Shift while resizing a group, all frame
widths, line weights, pictures, and text are resized proportionally. If you press
Command/Ctrl while resizing a group, frame widths, pictures, and text are still
resized, but not proportionally.
Duplicating items
QuarkXPress lets you make single or multiple copies of boxes, lines, and text paths.