QuarkXPress 5 Shortcuts for Basic Tasks

By Barbara Assadi, Galen Gruman

Part of QuarkXPress 5 For Dummies Cheat Sheet

QuarkXPress 5 has tons and tons of shortcuts. You probably won’t memorize most of them, but you’ll no doubt find yourself using one or two all the time. Here are some helpful shortcut keys for view, palette, and object-selection tasks.

QuarkXPress Viewing Shortcuts
Action	Mac	Windows
100%	Command+1	Ctrl+1
Fit in windows	Command+0	Ctrl+0
200%	Option+Command+click	Ctrl+Alt+click
Thumbnails	Shift+F6	Shift+F6
Change view percentage	Control+V	Ctrl+Alt+V
Force redraw	Option+Command+period	Shift+Esc
Halt redraw	Command+period	Esc
Go to page	Command+J	Ctrl+J
Zoom in	Command+click	Ctrl+spacebar+click
Zoom out	Option+Command+click	Ctrl+Alt+spacebar+click
Windows submenu	Shift+click title bar	Alt+W (tile, stack)
Show/hide invisibles	Command+I	Ctrl+I
Show/hide rulers	Command+R	Ctrl+R
Show/hide guides	F7	F7
Show/hide baseline grid	Option+F7	Ctrl+F7
Snap to guides	Shift+F7	Shift+F7

QuarkXPress Palettes Shortcuts
Action	Mac	Windows
Show/hide Measurements	F9	F9
Show/hide Tools palette	F8	F8
Show/hide Document Layout palette	F10	F4
Show/hide StyleSheets palette	F11	F11
Show/hide Colors palette	F12	F12
Show/hide Trap Information palette	Option+F12	Ctrl+F12
Show/hide Lists palette	Option+F11	Ctrl+F11
Show/hide Index palette	Option+Command+I	Ctrl+Alt+I
Show font use	F13	not available
Show picture use	Option+F13	not available

QuarkXPress Shortcuts for Object Selection
Action	Mac	Windows
Select all	Command+A	Ctrl+A
Select item behind	Option+Shift+Command+click	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+click another item
Multiple selection (series)	Shift+click	Shift+click
Multiple selection (noncontiguous)	Command+click	Ctrl+click