2023

User Guide | 135
To merge two or more text boxes and preserve the text, see “Merging text 
boxes.
QuarkXPress has new tools on measurements palette, whose icons graphically
depict the merge or split behavior, making them more intuitive for designers to
easily access and create complex shapes with the combination of two or more
shapes.
Merge and Split icons in the measurement palette
Intersection: Keeps only the overlapping areas of the selected items. The ●
color of the back-most item is applied to the new single item.
Union: Combines all the selected items into one box, keeping both the ●
overlapping and non-overlapping areas. The color of the back-most item is
applied to the new single item.
Difference: Removes the overlapped areas from the back item and ●
deletes the front-most item from the selected items.
Reverse Difference: Removes the overlapped areas from the front item ●
and deletes the back-most item from the selected items.
Exclusive Or: Leaves all the shapes intact but cuts out overlapping areas. ●
It creates two bezier points at each location where any two lines originally
intersected. It is used to create a ‘see-through’ effect with overlapping items.
Combine command is similar to the Exclusive Or command, but if you look at ●
the points surrounding the cut-out area, you will notice that no points were
added where two lines intersect.
Join End Points: Two endpoints (one on each path) need to be placed on ●
the top (or within 6 points) of each other. Merges the two points into one
corner point.
Outside Paths command works with a merged box that contains several, ●
non-overlapping shapes. Outside Paths keeps all the outside path
information and divides non-overlapping outside paths into separate boxes.
Split All Paths: Separates the items from each other until every box ●
within a complex box has been split. If you use this command on a shape
that has a hole in it, the hole becomes solid.