QuarkXPress Keyboard Command Guide

For Mac

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This document lists the keyboard commands for QuarkXPress 8.

Keyboard commands: Mac OS

Menu commands (Mac OS)

Dialog box commands (Mac OS)

Palette commands (Mac OS)

Project and layout commands (Mac OS)

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Item commands (Mac OS)

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Text commands (Mac OS)

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Picture commands (Mac OS)

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Menu commands (Mac OS)

QuarkXPress menu
QuarkXPress Environment
Preferences
Quit QuarkXPress

Option+About QuarkXPress or Control+Option+E

z+Option+Shift+Y
z+Q

File menu
z+N
z+Option+N
z+O
z+W
z+S
z+Shift+S
Option+Revert to Saved
z+E
z+Option+E
z+Option+A
z+Option+Shift+S
z+P
z+Option+P

New Project
New Library
Open
Close
Save
Save as
Revert to last Auto Save
Import
Save Text
Append
Save Page as EPS
Print
Output Job

Edit menu
z+Z
z+Y, z+Z, or z+Shift+Z (configurable)
z+X
z+C
z+V
z+Option+Shift+V
z+A
z+F
z+Option+F

Undo
Redo
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste In Place
Select All
Find/Change
Close Find/Change

Edit menu
z+Option+Y
Option+Shift+F12
Double-click tool in the Tools palette
Shift+F11
Shift+F12
z+Option+J

Paragraph pane (Preferences dialog box)

Trapping pane (Preferences dialog box)
Tools pane (Preferences dialog box)
Style Sheets dialog box
Colors dialog box
H&Js dialog box

Menu commands (Mac OS)

Style menu for text
z+Shift+\

Size Other
Type Styles

z+Shift+P
z+Shift+B

Plain
Bold

z+Shift+I
z+Shift+U
z+Shift+W
z+Shift+/
z+Shift+O
z+Shift+Y
z+Shift+K
z+Shift+H
z+Shift+=
z+Shift+ - (hyphen)
z+Shift+V
z+Shift+G
z+Shift+D
z+Option+Shift+T
z+Option+R
z+Shift+G

Italic
Underline
Word Underline
Strikethrough
Outline
Shadow
All Caps
Small Caps
Superscript
Subscript
Superior
Ligatures (not available in Plus and East Asian editions)
Character Attributes dialog box
Change story direction (Plus and East Asian editions only)
Rubi (Plus and East Asian editions only)
Group Characters (Plus and East Asian editions only)
Alignment
Left
Centered
Right
Justified
Forced
Leading

z+Shift+L
z+Shift+C
z+Shift+R
z+Shift+J
z+Option+Shift+J
z+Shift+E

Style menu for text

z+Shift+F
z+Shift+T
z+Shift+N
Shift+display Font submenu

Formats
Tabs
Rules
Toggle Font Previews preference

Style menu for pictures

z+Shift+H
z+Shift+M
z+Shift+F
z+Option+Shift+F

Halftone
Center Picture
Stretch Picture to Fit Box
Scale Picture to Box (Proportionally)

Style menu for lines

z+Shift+\

Width Other

Menu commands (Mac OS)

Item menu
Modify
Frame

z+M
z+B

Runaround
Clipping

z+T
z+Option+T

Drop Shadow
Duplicate
Step and Repeat
Step and Repeat (Plus and East Asian editions only)
Delete
Group
Ungroup
Lock Position/Unlock Position
Send to Back
Bring to Front
Bring Forward
Send Backward

z+Option+Shift+D
z+D
z+Option+R
z+Option+D
z+K
z+G
z+U
F6
Shift+F5
F5
Option+Item Bring to Front or Option+F5
Option+Item Send to Back or Option+Shift+F5

Item menu
Space/Align
Apply Last
Left Align (Item Relative)
Left Align (Page Relative)
Right Align (Item Relative)
Right Align (Page Relative)
Center Align Horizontal (Item Relative)
Center Align Horizontal (Page Relative)
Center Align Vertical (Item Relative)
Center Align Vertical (Page Relative)
Top Align (Item Relative)
Top Align (Page Relative)
Bottom Align (Item Relative)
Bottom Align (Page Relative)
Display Space/Align tab of Measurements palette
Shape (convert Bzier line to filled-center Bzier box)
Edit
Runaround
Clipping Path
Point/Segment Type
Corner Point
Smooth Point
Symmetrical Point
Straight Segment
Curved Segment

z+Option+/
z+f
Shift+z+f
z+g
Shift+z+g
z+[
Shift+z+[
z+]
Shift+z+]
z+h
Shift+z+h
z+i
Shift+z+i
z+, (comma)
Option+ Item Shape [Bzier shape]
Option+F4
Option+Shift+F4
Option+F1
Option+F2
Option+F3
Option+Shift+F1
Option+Shift+F2
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Menu commands (Mac OS)

Page menu
Go to Page dialog box
Display this pages master page
Display next master page
Display previous master page

z+J
Shift+F10

Display Layout (when a master page is displayed)

Page Properties (when a Web layout is active)

Shift+F10
z+Option+Shift+A

Option+F10
Option+Shift+F10

Layout menu
z+Option+Shift+P

Layout Properties dialog box

View menu
z+0 (zero)
Option+Fit in Window or z+Option+0 (zero)
z+1
Shift+F6 or Option+Shift+F6
F7
Option+F7
z+Option+F7
Shift+F7
Option+Shift+F7
z+R
z+I

Fit in Window
Fit largest spread in window
Actual Size
Thumbnails
Display/hide Guides
Display/hide Page Grids
Display/hide Text Box Grids
Snap to Guides
Snap to Page Grids
Display/hide Rulers
Display/hide Invisibles

Utilities menu
z+L
z+Option+L
z+Option+Shift+L
z+Option+Shift+H

Check Spelling Word/Selection

Check Spelling Story
Check Spelling Layout
Suggested Hyphenation
Usage dialog box
Fonts pane
Pictures pane
Line Check Next Line

z+F6 or F13
z+Option+F6 or Option+F13
z+;

Window menu
Display/hide Tools palette
Display/hide Measurements palette
Display/hide Page Layout palette
Display/hide Style Sheets palette
Display/hide Colors palette
Display/hide Trap Information palette
Display/hide Lists palette
Display/hide Interactive palette

F8
F9
F10
F11
F12
Option+F12
Option+F11
z+Option+F8

Dialog box commands (Mac OS)

Tabs in dialog boxes
z+Option+Tab
z+Option+Shift+Tab

Display next tab

Display previous tab

Fields
Select next field
Select previous field
Select field with text insertion bar
Cut
Copy
Paste
Revert fields to original values
Perform math by combining operators

Tab
Shift+Tab
Double-click
z+X
z+C
z+V
z+Z
+ (addition)
(subtraction)
* (multiplication)
/ (division)

Buttons
OK (or bordered button)
Cancel
Yes
No
Apply
Set button in Tabs tab
(in Paragraph Attributes dialog box)

Return or Enter
z+. (period) or esc
z+Y
z+N
z+A
z+S

Lists (in dialog boxes)

Select consecutive items in list
Select nonconsecutive items in list

Shift+click
z+click

Palette commands (Mac OS)

Tools palette
Display/hide palette
Display Tools pane of Preferences

F8
Double-click tool

Switch between Item tool and Text Content tool or

Picture Content tool

Shift+F8

Select next tool

Select previous tool
Move tool to main palette
Move tool into pop-up tool list
Tool selection shortcuts
(not available when Text Content tool is selected)
Item tool
Text tools
Picture Content tool
Box tools
Line tool
Pen tools
Table tool
Zoom tool
Pan tool

Option+F8 or z+Option+Tab
Option+Shift+F8 or z+Option+Shift+Tab
Control+select tool
Control+click tool

V
T
R
B
L
P
G
Z
X

Measurements palette
Display/hide palette
Select the Font field of the Classic tab or
the Space/Align tab (or display palette)
Select the Font field of the Classic tab or
the Character Attributes tab
Toggle Font Preview preference
Select next field
Select previous field
Toggle forward through tabs
Toggle backward through tabs
Exit/Apply
Exit/Cancel
Display Space/Align tab

F9
z+Option+M
z+Option+Shift+M
Shift+display the Font drop-down menu
Tab
Shift+Tab
z+Option+; (semicolon)
z+Option+, (comma)
Return or Enter
z+. (period) or Escape
z+, (comma)

Palette commands (Mac OS)

Page Layout palette
Display/hide palette
Display Insert Pages context menu

F10
Control+click in the palette

Display Insert Pages dialog box

Display absolute page number

Option+drag master page into the layout area of the palette

Option+click page

Style Sheets palette

Display/hide palette
Display Edit Style Sheet context menu
Display Edit Style Sheet dialog box
Apply No Style, then style sheet
(apply to paragraph attributes only)

F11
Control+click style sheet
z+click style sheet
Option+click style sheet
Option+Shift+click paragraph style sheet

Colors palette
Display/hide palette
Display Colors dialog box
Display Edit Colors context menu

F12
z+click color name
Control+click color name

Trap Information palette

Display/hide palette

Option+F12

Lists palette
Display/hide palette

Option+F11

Index palette
z+Option+I
z+Option+I
z+Option+Shift+I
Option+click Add button
Double-click

Display palette
Select Text field
Click Add button
Click Add Reversed button
Edit selected index entry

Palette commands (Mac OS)

Find/Change palette
Display palette
Close palette

z+F
z+Option+F

Change Find Next button to Find First

Option+Find Next

Tiling and stacking projects

Window menu
Tile or Stack at actual size
Tile or Stack at fit in window
Tile or Stack at thumbnails
Shortcut to Window menu
Tile or Stack at actual size from title bar
Tile or Stack at fit in window from title bar
Tile or Stack at thumbnails from title bar

Control+Tile/Stack
z+Tile/Stack
Option+Tile/Stack
Shift+click title bar
Control+Shift+click title bar+Tile/Stack
z+Shift+click title bar+Tile/Stack
Option+Shift+click title bar+Tile/Stack

Displaying pages
Go to Page dialog box
Display this pages master page
Display next master page
Display previous master page
Display Layout (when a master page is displayed)

z+J
Shift+F10
Option+F10
Option+Shift+F10
Shift+F10

Changing views
Access View Percentage field
Any view to Actual Size
Any view to Fit in Window
Any view to 200%
Toggle between 100% and 200%
Fit largest spread in window
Zoom in
Zoom out
Zoom in
(not available when Text Content tool is selected)
Zoom out
(not available when Text Content tool is selected)

Control+V
z+1
z+0
z+Option+click
z+Option+click
Option+Fit in Window or z+Option+0 (zero)
Control+Shift+click/drag
Control+Option+click/drag
z+ + (plus)
z+ - (hyphen)

Redrawing the screen

Stop redraw
Force redraw

z+. (period)
z+Option+. (period)

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Project and layout commands (Mac OS)

Deleting ruler guides
Delete horizontal ruler guides
Delete vertical ruler guides

Option+click horizontal ruler

Option+click vertical ruler

Closing projects
Close project window
Close all project windows

z+W
Option+click close box or z+Option+W

Scrolling
With Pan tool
Enable Live Scroll (Input Settings preference off)
Disable Live Scroll (Input Settings preference on)
To start of text
To end of text
Up one screen
Down one screen
To first page
To last page
To previous page
To next page
Extended keyboard
Start of layout
End of layout
Up one screen
Down one screen
To first page
To last page
To previous page
To next page

Option+drag
Option+drag scroll box
Option+drag scroll box
Control+A
Control+D
Control+K
Control+L
Control+Shift+A
Control+Shift+D
Control+Shift+K
Control+Shift+L
Home
End
Page Up
Page Down
Shift+Home
Shift+End
Shift+Page Up
Shift+Page Down

Navigating among layouts

Cycle through layouts

z+ (apostrophe)

Navigating among projects

Cycle through project windows

z+~

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Item commands (Mac OS)

Selecting/deselecting items
z+Option+Shift+click where items overlap
Shift+click

Select item at back or behind

Select multiple items or points
Deselect all items

Escape

Creating, resizing, and rotating items

Constrain to square or circle while creating a box
Constrain proportions while resizing
Scale contents while resizing item
Resize relative to center
Resize multiple items (requires multiple selection)
Constrain item rotation to 0/45/90
Constrain straight line angle to 0/45/90
Duplicate item while dragging

Press Shift while creating

Shift+drag handle
z+drag handle
Option+drag handle
Press z before dragging handle
Press Shift while rotating
Shift+while creating or resizing line
Option+drag

Modifying line width

Increase
Preset range
1 point
Decrease
Preset range
1 point

z+Shift+. (period)
z+Option+Shift+. (period)
z+Shift+, (comma)
z+Option+Shift+, (comma)

Editing Bzier items and paths

Add Bzier point
Delete Bzier point
Invoke Select Point mode from Bzier Pen tool
Invoke Convert Point mode from Bzier Pen tool
Invoke Convert Point mode while dragging Bzier handle
Retract Bzier handle
Delete active Bzier point
Select all points on Bzier item or path
Invoke Item mode from Bzier Pen tool

Click segment with Bzier Pen tool

Click point with Bzier Pen tool
z
Option
Option+drag
Option+click control handle
Delete (Select Point tool must be selected)
Double click point with Select Point tool
z+Option

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Item commands (Mac OS)

Editing Bzier items and paths
Constrain active point to 45 movement
Constrain active curve handle to 45 movement
Convert Bzier line to filled-center Bzier box

Shift+drag point
Shift+drag curve handle
Option+ Item Shape [Bzier shape]

Moving items
Drag (Item tool) or z+drag
(Text Content tool or Picture Content tool)
Shift+drag (Item tool) or z+Shift+drag
(Text Content tool or Picture Content tool)

With no constraints
With horizontal/vertical constraints

Nudging items (Item tool)

Move 1 point
Move 1/10 point
Move 10 points (amount configurable in Preferences)

Arrow keys
Option+arrow keys
Shift+arrow keys

Aligning items (Item tool)

Center align (horizontally) two or more items
with each other
Center align (vertically) two or more items with each other
Left align two or more items relative to each other
Right align two or more items relative to each other
Top align two or more items relative to each other
Bottom align two or more items relative to each other
Center align (horizontally) one or more
selected items relative to the page
Center align (vertical) one or more
selected items relative to the page
Left align one or more selected items relative to the page
Right align one or more selected items relative to the page
Bottom align one or more selected items relative to the page
Top align one or more selected items relative to the page

z+[
z+]
z+f
z+g
z+h
z+i
z+Shift+ [
z+Shift+ ]
z+Shift+f
z+Shift+g
z+Shift+h
z+Shift+i

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Text commands (Mac OS)

Applying drop shadows to items
Drop Shadow tab of the Modify dialog box

z+Option+Shift+D

Adding automatic page numbers in text box

Previous box page number character
Automatic page number character
Next box page number character

z+2
z+3
z+4

Updating text flow in a layout

Reflow text as current version of QuarkXPress

Option+Open in Open dialog box

Changing language
Force apply a language (override language locking)

Option+select a language in the Language drop-down

menu

Changing font
Font field in Measurements palette
Previous font
Next font
Force apply a font (override font locking)

z+Option+Shift+M
Option+Shift+F9
Option+F9
Option+select a font in the Font menu

Entering one font character

Symbol font character
Zapf Dingbats font character

z+Option+Q
z+Option+Z

Modifying font size

Increase
Preset range
1 point
Decrease
Preset range
1 point
Resize interactively
Proportional relative to center
Proportional
Nonproportional

z+Shift+. (period)
z+Option+Shift+. (period)
z+Shift+, (comma)
z+Option+Shift+, (comma)
z+Option+Shift+drag handle
z+Shift+drag handle
z+drag handle

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Text commands (Mac OS)

Modifying horizontal/vertical scaling
Increase
5%
1%
Decrease
5%
1%

z+]
z+Option+]
z+[
z+Option+[

Modifying kerning/tracking
Increase
1/20 em
1/200 em
Decrease
1/20 em
1/200 em

z+Shift+]
z+Option+Shift+]
z+Shift+[
z+Option+Shift+[

Modifying baseline shift

Up 1 point
Down 1 point

z+Option+Shift+=
z+Option+Shift+ - (hyphen)

Modifying leading
Increase
1 point
1/10 point
Decrease
1 point
1/10 point

z+Shift+ (apostrophe)
z+Option+Shift+ (apostrophe)
z+Shift+; (semicolon)
z+Option+Shift+; (semicolon)

Copying paragraph attributes

Apply a paragraphs formatting to the paragraph
that contains the insertion point or the selected text

Option+Shift+click the paragraph

with the desired formatting

Dragging and dropping text

Drag+copy text (Input Settings preference on)
Drag text (Input Settings preference off)
Drag+copy text (Input Settings preference off)

Shift+drag
z+Control+drag
z+Control+Shift+drag

Clicking buttons when checking spelling

Look up
Skip
Add
Add all suspect words to auxiliary dictionary

z+L
z+S
z+A
Option+Shift+click Done button

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Text commands (Mac OS)

Searching for text
Wild card (Find only)
Tab
New paragraph
New line
New column
New box
Previous box page number character
Automatic page number character
Next box page number character
Punctuation space
Flex space
Backslash

z+/
\t
z+Return
z+Shift+Return
z+Enter
z+Shift+Enter
z+2
z+3
z+4
z+. (period)
z+Shift+F
z+\

Special characters
Indent here
Discretionary new line
New paragraph
New line (soft return)
New column
New box
Right-indent tab
Registered symbol ()
Copyright symbol ()
Trademark symbol ()
Bullet ()
Apple logo character
Pound symbol
Euro symbol
Yen symbol
Division symbol

z+\
z+Return
Return
Shift+Return
Enter
Shift+Enter
Option+Tab
Option+R
Option+G
Option+2
Option+8
Option+Shift+K
Option+3
Option+Shift+2
Option+Y
Option+/ (forward slash)

Hyphens and dashes

Breaking standard hyphen
Nonbreaking standard hyphen
Discretionary (soft) hyphen
Do not hyphenate word
Nonbreaking en dash
Breaking em dash
Nonbreaking em dash

- (hyphen)
z+=
z+ - (hyphen)
z+ - (hyphen) immediately before word
Option+ - (hyphen)
Option+Shift+ - (hyphen)
z+Option+=

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Text commands (Mac OS)

Spaces
Breaking standard space
Nonbreaking standard space
Breaking en space
Nonbreaking en space
Breaking flexible space
Nonbreaking flexible space
Breaking punctuation space
Nonbreaking punctuation space
Breaking em space
Nonbreaking em space
Breaking thin space
Nonbreaking thin space

Space
z+5
Option+Space
z+Option+Space or z+Option+5
Option+Shift+Space
z+Option+Shift+Space
Shift+Space
z+Shift+Space
z+6
z+Option+6
z+7
z+Option+7

Moving the text insertion point

Previous character
Next character
Previous line
Next line
Previous word
Next word
Previous paragraph
Next paragraph
Start of line
End of line
Start of story
End of story

f
g
h
i
z+f
z+g
z+h
z+i
z+Option+f
z+Option+g
z+Option+h
z+Option+i

Selecting characters
Previous character
Next character
Previous line
Next line
Previous word
Next word
Previous paragraph
Next paragraph
Start of line
End of line
Start of story
End of story

Shift+f
Shift+g
Shift+h
Shift+i
z+Shift+f
z+Shift+g
z+Shift+h
z+Shift+i
z+Option+Shift+f
z+Option+Shift+g
z+Option+Shift+h
z+Option+Shift+i

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Text commands (Mac OS)

Clicking the mouse to select text
Position text insertion point
Select word

One click
Two clicks in the word

Select word and its period, comma, etc.

Select line

Two clicks between word and punctuation

Three clicks

Select paragraph
Select story

Four clicks
Five clicks

Deleting characters
Previous character
Next character
Next character (extended keyboard)
Previous word
Next word
Selected characters

Delete
Shift+Delete
[Forward delete key]
z+Delete
z+Shift+Delete
Delete

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Picture commands (Mac OS)

Importing pictures
Import EPS without adding spot colors
Reimport all pictures in project

z+Open in Import dialog box

z+Open in Open dialog box

Scaling pictures
Increase scale 5%
Decrease scale 5%

z+Option+Shift+. (period)
z+Option+Shift+, (comma)

Resizing boxes and pictures

Resize maintaining aspect ratio
Resize box and scale picture
Resize relative to center
Rotate picture content relative to center

Shift+drag handle
z+drag box handle
Option+drag handle
Option+drag rotation handle

Centering and fitting pictures

Center
Fit to box
Fit to box maintaining proportions

z+Shift+M
z+Shift+F
z+Option+Shift+F

Nudging pictures (Content tool)

Left 1 point
Left 1/10 point
Right 1 point
Right 1/10 point
Up 1 point
Up 1/10 point
Down 1 point
Down 1/10 point

Shift+f
Option+f
Shift+g
Option+g
Shift+h
Option+h
Shift+i
Option+i

Modifying pictures
Picture Halftone Specifications dialog box
Change Update button to Update All
in the Pictures pane of the Usage dialog box
Apply Negative/Invert picture style

z+Shift+H
Option+click Update button
z+Shift+ - (hyphen)

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