2019

BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES
96 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2019
pane at a time by choosing to 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
boxes 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.
You can change the corner type of rectangular boxes to rounded, concave, and
beveled corners using the Item > Shape submenu or the Box Corner Style drop-
down menu in the Measurements palette. You can add and alter rounded corners
by entering values in the Box Corner Radius field in the Home tab of the
Measurements palette. Any attributes you apply to one box (borders, colors etc.)