at least from a Quark Xpress user's standpoint, there is nothing that couldn't be learned from five minutes of perusing the manual. But I also think the article brings up important issues that all users should be aware of. To the readers out there: why is it that most DTP self-proclaimed "experts" never take the time to at least glance through the books accompanying their essential tools. I constantly see experienced people trudging through tasks that are better left to built-in features in their apps. It's like struggling to pull your car's window down by hand because you didn't bother to read in the owner's manual that you have power windows.
As a 4.11 user (my company won't upgrade until XPress ships as OSX native), I've found out the hard way that Quark XPress' find/change tool doesn't always find/change every instance. Sometimes you have to nudge it by placing the cursor in the same box as the text, even on a global document search. Also, for some reason you can't "find/replace" on non-breaking spaces. On the good side, the wild card feature has saved me days and days of tedious text editing. The special characters are extremely useful for the advanced user. Look at the easy to follow charts in the XPress manual or photocopy it for a handy reference.
what a major time saver!!!
I can put this one to use immediately. (In fact, I wish I had it an hour ago when I was manually changing all "comma spaces" into tabs.) Hurray!
Good points made but...
at least from a Quark Xpress user's standpoint, there is nothing that couldn't be learned from five minutes of perusing the manual. But I also think the article brings up important issues that all users should be aware of. To the readers out there: why is it that most DTP self-proclaimed "experts" never take the time to at least glance through the books accompanying their essential tools. I constantly see experienced people trudging through tasks that are better left to built-in features in their apps. It's like struggling to pull your car's window down by hand because you didn't bother to read in the owner's manual that you have power windows.
As a 4.11 user (my company won't upgrade until XPress ships as OSX native), I've found out the hard way that Quark XPress' find/change tool doesn't always find/change every instance. Sometimes you have to nudge it by placing the cursor in the same box as the text, even on a global document search. Also, for some reason you can't "find/replace" on non-breaking spaces. On the good side, the wild card feature has saved me days and days of tedious text editing. The special characters are extremely useful for the advanced user. Look at the easy to follow charts in the XPress manual or photocopy it for a handy reference.