Real World QuarkXPress 7 for Macintosh and Windows

Chapter Five. Working with Text

When you think of QuarkXPress, you think of typography. But before you can set type in QuarkXPress, you somehow have to get the words onto your page. QuarkXPress is a capable word processor in its own right. Style sheets, find/change, a spelling checker, and even drag-and-drop text editing are all elements that have made this program a competent—though not exceptional—word processor.

However, just because you can use QuarkXPress as a word processor doesn’t mean that you should. In complex designs and on many lower-end computers, QuarkXPress can become so slow that a skilled typist can get ahead of it. In this chapter, I’ll examine the strengths and the weaknesses of writing and editing in QuarkXPress, including its ...