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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 |