Menu commands QuarkXPress menu Preferences Paragraph pane (Preferences dialog box) Quit ⌘+⌥+⇧+Y ⌘+⌥+Y ⌘+Q File menu New Project New Library Open Close Close All Documents Save Save As Revert to last Auto Save Import Save Text Append Export Layout as PDF Export Page as EPS Print ⌘+N ⌘+⌥+N ⌘+O ⌘+W ⌘+⌥+W ⌘+S ⌘+⇧+S ⌥+Revert to Saved ⌘+E ⌘+⌥+E ⌘+⌥+A ⌘+⌥+P ⌘+⌥+⇧+S ⌘+P Edit menu Undo Redo Cut Cut Item with Content Tool Copy Copy Item with Content Tool Paste Paste without Formatting Paste In Place Select All Fi
Colors dialog box ⇧+F12 Style menu for text Type Style Plain Bold Italic Underline Word Underline Strikethrough Double Strikethrough Outline Shadow All Caps Small Caps Superscript Subscript Superior Ligature (not available in East Asian configuration) Change story direction (available only in East Asian configuration) Rubi (available only in East Asian configuration) Group Characters (available only in East Asian configuration) Alignment Left Centered Right Justified Forced Towards Spine Away From Spine I
Style menu for pictures Center Picture Stretch Picture to Fit Box Scale Picture To Fit Box Scale Picture To Fill Box ⌘+⇧+M ⌘+⇧+F ⌘+⌥+⇧+F ⌘+⌥+⇧+B Item menu Duplicate Super Step and Repeat Super Step and Repeat (available only in East Asian configuration) Delete Lock Position/Unlock Position Fit Box to Text Group Ungroup Send to Back Send Backward Bring to Front Bring Forward Space/Align Left Align (Item Relative) Left Align (Page Relative) Right Align (Item Relative) Right Align (Page Relative) Center Alig
Point/Segment Type Corner Point Smooth Point Symmetrical Point Straight Segment Curved Segment ⌥+F1 ⌥+F2 ⌥+F3 ⌥+⇧+F1 ⌥+⇧+F2 Page menu Go to Page dialog box Display this page’s master page Display next master page Display previous master page Display Layout (when a master page is displayed) Display page pop-up menu ⌘+J ⇧+F10 ⌥+F10 ⌥+⇧+F10 ⇧+F10 ⌘+⌥+J Layout menu Layout Properties dialog box Display previous layout Display next layout ⌘+⌥+⇧+P ⌃+⇧+Tab ⌃+Tab Table menu Insert Table From External Source/Cr
Switch to Trim view Switch to Output Preview view set Switch to Authoring View view set Switch to Story Editor view Enter full screen Switch to Default Preview view set ⌘+⌥+⇧+F7 ⌘+⌥+2 ⌘+⌥+⇧+I ⌘+8 ⌘+⌃+F ⌘+⌥+1 Utilities menu Check Spelling > Word/Selection Check Spelling > Story Check Spelling > Layout Check Spelling > End of Story Suggested Hyphenation Line Check > Next Line Usage dialog box Fonts pane Pictures pane ⌘+L ⌘+⌥+L ⌘+⌥+⇧+L ⌘+⌥+⇧+F3 ⌘+⌥+⇧+H ⌘+; ⌘+F6 or F13 ⌘+⌥+F6 or ⌥+F13 Window menu Tile docum
Perform math by combining operators + (addition) - (subtraction) * (multiplication) / (division) Tabs in dialog boxes Display next tab Select tab header and press → Display previous tab Select tab header and press ← Buttons OK (or bordered button) Cancel Return or Enter ⌘+.
Pen tools Item Format Painter tool Table tool Zoom tool Pan tool P I G Z X Using Text Linking/Unlinking tools To maintain text in respective text boxes during linking To unlink text box with its text from the linked chain To maintain text in respective text boxes during unlinking ⌥+Link tool selected ⇧+⌥+Unlink tool selected ⌥+Unlink tool selected Item Format Painter tool Add attributes to Item Format Painter tool Press ⇧ Key while selecting the item Uncheck Apply check box for all panes in Item Font
Select the X Field of the Text box tab Select the initial field of the Border tab Select the Space/Align tab Select the Runaround tab Select the Clipping tab Select the Text Shading tab Select the Drop Shadow tab Toggle Font Preview preference Select next field Select previous field Toggle forward through tabs Toggle backward through tabs Apply Cancel ⌘+⌥+M ⌘+B ⌘+, (comma) ⌘+T ⌘+⌥+T ⌘+⌥+O ⌘+⌥+⇧+D ⇧+display the Font drop-down menu Tab ⇧+Tab ⌘+⌥+; (semicolon) ⌘+⌥+, (comma) Return or Enter Esc Modifying Font
Sending Increment/Decrement (1 point) Click Ticker Sending Increment/Decrement (0.1 point) ⌥+Click Ticker Sending Increment/Decrement (10 points) ⇧+Click Ticker Modifying Baseline Shift via the Measurements Palette Ticker Baseline Shift Increment/Decrement (1 point) Click Ticker Baseline Shift Increment/Decrement (0.
Skew Box (25 Degrees) ⇧+Click Ticker Modifying Box Corner Radius via the Measurements Palette Ticker Corner Radius Increment/Decrement (10 points) Click Ticker Corner Radius Increment/Decrement (1 point) ⌥+Click Ticker Corner Radius Increment/Decrement (25 points) ⇧+Click Ticker Modifying Box Text Angle via the Measurements Palette Ticker Box Text Angle Increment/Decrement (10 Degrees) Click Ticker Box Text Angle Increment/Decrement (1 Degree) ⌥+Click Ticker Box Text Angle Increment/Decrement (4
Modifying Box Text Left Inset via the Measurements Palette Ticker Box Text Left Inset Increment/Decrement (1 Point) Click Ticker Box Text Left Inset Increment/Decrement (0.1 Points) ⌥+Click Ticker Box Text Left Inset Increment/Decrement (10 Points) ⇧+Click Ticker Modifying Box Text Bottom Inset via the Measurements Palette Ticker Box Text Bottom Inset Increment/Decrement (1 Point) Click Ticker Box Text Bottom Inset Increment/Decrement (0.
Border Width Increment/Decrement (0.
Modifying Space After via the Measurements Palette Ticker Space After Increment/Decrement (1 Point) Click Ticker Space After Increment/Decrement (0.1 Point) ⌥+Click Ticker Space After Increment/Decrement (10 Points) ⇧+Click Ticker Modifying Leading via the Measurements Palette Ticker Leading Increment/Decrement (1 Point) Click Ticker Leading Increment/Decrement (0.
Rule Above From Right Increment/Decrement (1 Point) Click Ticker Rule Above From Right Increment/Decrement (0.
Rule Below From Right Increment/Decrement (10 Points) ⇧+Click Ticker Modifying Rule Below Offset via the Measurements Palette Ticker Rule Below Offset Increment/Decrement (10 Percent) Click Ticker Rule Below Offset Increment/Decrement (1 Percent) ⌥+Click Ticker Rule Below Offset Increment/Decrement (20 Percent) ⇧+Click Ticker Modifying Rule Below Offset via the Measurements Palette Ticker Rule Below Offset Increment/Decrement (10 Points) Click Ticker Rule Below Offset Increment/Decrement (1 Point)
Apply Style Sheet & Remove Local Paragraph Formatting Apply Style Sheet & Maintain Appearance Update Style Sheet ⌥+⇧+click style sheet ⌘+⌥+⇧+click style sheet ⌘+⌥+click style sheet Colors palette Display/hide palette Display Colors dialog box Display Edit Colors context menu Select/deselect Color Picker tool F12 ⌘+click color name ⌃+click color name K Add color to color picker swatch Select Color picker and click on desired location Add swatch color to Colors palette 1.
Click Add Reversed button Edit selected index entry ⌥+click Add button Double-click Find/Change palette Display palette Close palette Change Find Next button to Find First ⌘+F ⌘+⌥+F ⌥ Check Spelling palette Check Spelling > Word/Selection Check Spelling > Story Check Spelling > Layout Check Spelling > End of Story Add (during Check Spelling session) Add all suspect words to auxiliary dictionary (during Check Spelling session) Skip button (during Check Spelling session) ⌘+L ⌘+⌥+L ⌘+⌥+⇧+L ⌘+⌥+⇧+F3 ⌘+A ⌥+
Conditional Styles palette Remove Conditional Style, but retain formatting Remove Conditional Style and formatting Click No Conditional Style ⌥+click No Conditional Style Turn Hiding On All Docked Palettes Bottom Palettes Left Palettes Top Palettes Right Palettes ⌃+` ⌃+1 ⌃+2 ⌃+3 ⌃+4 Project and layout commands Displaying pages Go to Page dialog box Display this page’s master page Display previous master page Display next master page Display Layout (when a master page is displayed) ⌘+J ⇧+F10 ⌥+⇧+F10 ⌥+F
Moving/ Deleting ruler guides Move/ Delete Guide (if Item Tool is not selected) ⌘+click drag guide Delete horizontal ruler guides Delete vertical ruler guides ⌥+click horizontal ruler ⌥+click vertical ruler Scrolling Without selecting Pan tool To start of text To end of text Up one screen Down one screen To first page To last page To previous page To next page To previous spread To next spread Extended keyboard Start of layout End of layout ⌥+drag ⌃+A ⌃+D Page Up Page Down ⇧+Home ⇧+End ⇧+Page Up ⇧+Page
Select item at back or behind Select multiple items or points Deselect all items ⌘+⌥+⇧+click where items overlap ⇧+click Esc Creating, resizing, and rotating items Constrain to square or circle while creating a box Constrain proportions while resizing Scale contents while resizing item Resize relative to center Resize multiple items (requires multiple selection) Constrain item rotation to 0°/45°/90° Press ⇧ while creating ⇧+drag handle ⌘+drag handle ⌥+drag handle Press z before dragging handle Press ⇧ wh
Preset range 1 point ⌘+⇧+, (comma) ⌘+⌥+⇧+, (comma) Moving items With no constraints Drag (Item tool) or ⌘+drag (Text Content tool or Picture Content tool) With horizontal/vertical constraints ⇧+drag (Item tool) or ⌘+⇧+drag (Text Content tool or Picture Content tool) Nudging items (Item tool) Move 1 point Move 1/10 point Move 10 points (amount configurable in Preferences) Arrow keys ⌥+arrow keys ⇧+arrow keys Moving Flex Items Move Position Up Move Position Down ⌘+↑ or ⌘+→ ⌘+↓ or ⌘+← Modifying boxes
Adding automatic page numbers in text box Previous box page number character Automatic page number character Next box page number character ⌘+2 ⌘+3 ⌘+4 Updating text flow in a layout Reflow text as current version of QuarkXPress ⌥+Open in Open dialog box Changing language Force apply a language (override language locking) ⌥+select a language in the Language drop-down menu of the Character tab of the Measurements palette Changing font Previous font Next font Force apply a font (override font locking)
Modifying horizontal/vertical scaling Increase 5% 1% Decrease 5% 1% ⌘+] ⌘+⌥+] ⌘+[ ⌘+⌥+[ Modifying kerning/tracking Increase 1/20 em 1/200 em Decrease 1/20 em 1/200 em ⌘+⇧+] ⌘+⌥+⇧+] ⌘+⇧+[ ⌘+⌥+⇧+[ Modifying word space tracking Increase .05 em .005 em Decrease .05 em .
Format Painter Copy Text Formatting Apply Text Formatting ⌘+⌥+⇧+C ⌘+⌥+⇧+A Copying paragraph attributes Apply a paragraph’s formatting to the paragraph that contains the insertion point or the selected text ⌥+⇧+click the paragraph with the desired formatting Dragging and dropping text Drag text (Input Settings preference off) Drag+copy text (Input Settings preference on) Drag+copy text (Input Settings preference off) ⌘+⌃+drag ⇧+drag ⌘+⌃+⇧+drag Searching for text Wild card (Find only) (\?) Tab New parag
Hair space Thin space Zero-width space Word joiner Glyph without Unicode value Straight single quotation mark when Smart Quotes is on Straight double quotation mark when Smart Quotes is on Curly quotation mark Conditional style marker Footnotes/Endnotes Content Variable \{ \[ \z \j \~ ' " Paste into field \r \o \v Special characters Indent here Conditional style marker Discretionary new line New paragraph New line (soft return) New column New box Right-indent tab Registered symbol (®) Copyright symbol (©)
Spaces Breaking standard space Nonbreaking standard space Breaking en space Nonbreaking en space Breaking flexible space Nonbreaking flexible space Breaking punctuation space Nonbreaking punctuation space Breaking em space Nonbreaking em space Breaking thin space Nonbreaking thin space Space ⌘+5 ⌥+Space ⌘+⌥+5 ⌥+⇧+Space ⌘+⌥+⇧+Space ⇧+Space ⌘+⇧+Space ⌘+6 ⌘+⌥+6 ⌘+7 ⌘+⌥+7 Moving the text insertion point Previous character Next character Previous line Next line Previous word Next word Previous paragraph Next p
Previous paragraph Next paragraph Start of line End of line Start of story End of story ⌘+⇧+↑ ⌘+⇧+↓ ⌘+⌥+⇧+← ⌘+⌥+⇧+→ ⌘+⌥+⇧+↑ ⌘+⌥+⇧+↓ Clicking the mouse to select text Position text insertion point Select word Select word and its period, comma, etc.
Resize box and scale picture Resize relative to center Rotate picture content relative to center ⌘+drag box handle ⌥+drag handle ⌥+drag rotation handle Centering and fitting pictures Center Fit to box Scale Picture To Fit Box Scale Picture To Fill Box ⌘+⇧+M ⌘+⇧+F ⌘+⌥+⇧+F ⌘+⌥+⇧+B Nudging pictures (Content tool) Left 1 point Left 1/10 point Right 1 point Right 1/10 point Up 1 point Up 1/10 point Down 1 point Down 1/10 point ← ⌥+← → ⌥+→ ↑ ⌥+↑ ↓ ⌥+↓ Modifying pictures Change Update button to Update All in
