Using anchored picture boxes as bullet points
In QuarkXPress, an anchored box is one which has been pasted inside a text box and behaves, in some measure, as if it were a character. It is often useful to achor picture boxes which contain images that are closely related to a particular section of text. In this tutorial, however, we will take advantage of this feature to use an image (imported into an anchored picture box) as a bullet point. We will use the example of a poster on quitting smoking and let's suppose we want to use a circular no-smoking graphic as our bullet.

Single layout mode
Although many users still refer to the files created by QuarkXPress as documents, in fact QuarkXPress creates projects rather than documents. Projects are containers for layouts, each with its own page size, margin and column guides, master pages and medium (print or web).Realising that some users may not wish to use this multi-layout capability, Quark introduced, in version 7, the ability to deactivate it and to work in single layout mode.

Resizing both box and contents
Ordinarily, when you resize a picture box, the box changes size but the picture doesn't. Similarly, if you resize a text box, the box will change size and the text inside it will simply reflow to fit the new size and shape of the box. This tutorial shows a simply technique for resizing the contents of the box as well as the box itself.

More QuarkXPress tutorials soon.