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QuarkXPress 4 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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If you have a basic working knowledge of desktop publishing, you'll find that Elaine Weinmann's 'QuarkXPress For Windows' is the most practical hands-on companion for learning QuarkXPress.

Beginning with text input and modification, the book covers all the essentials of the new Quark in a scant (by computer-book standards) 345 pages. Every page seems to have one or more clear screen shots that illuminate text topics. Procedures for using Quark's tools are simply and elegantly presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manner. Tips and shortcuts appear in all the right places. The book's tersely-written, accurate text and its' emphasis on 'how-to' rather than 'why' makes it the perfect companion to keep open for ready reference while working in Quark. And, the actual design of the book makes it a pleasure to use.

If you need project-style tutorials, don't buy this book; if you require the 'hows' and all the 'whys', and more in-depth coverage, you need David Blatner's "The Quark XPress 4 Book."

But, if you've some working knowledge of DTP (desktop publishing), you'll find Weinmann's "Visual QuickStart Guide to Quark 4.0" to be the single best starting point for learning Quark. And, not only is it refreshingly modest in size, it's s-o-o-o-o inexpensive.

This book really helped me learn QuarkXPress. The program is very complicated and difficult to figure out for someone who has no previous experience with desktop publishing. This book helped shed some light on Quark and actually made it funtional for me. There is still a lot more to learn, but this book is great for those who are just starting out.

Have bought 5 or 6 of these Quickstart guides and find most of them to be very good. The Quark version is nice in that it gets right to the point about what the program can do and how to do it.

Have never used Quark before, so I bought this book and David Blatner's "The QuarkXpress 4 Book".

The quickstart guide is great for the quick pointers, and Blatner's book is excellent for more detailed information about the program. I would highly recommend both books to Quark users...QS book for newbies, and the other book for newbies thru advanced.

While I did find this book helpful in learning Quark, I did not feel that information and lessons were arranged in the most useful manner. I felt like, especially in the first chapters, information was being thrown at me without much application, and was thus difficult to remember. I prefer the lesson approach of the "Classroom in a Book" series, which I have used successfully for Photoshop and Illustrator, but ordered this when I was unable to find CiB for Quark. Visual QuickStart is pretty good, but perhaps I've been spoiled.

If you have a basic working knowledge of desktop publishing, you'll find that Elaine Weinmann's 'QuarkXPress For Windows' is the most practical hands-on companion for learning QuarkXPress.

Beginning with text input and modification, the book covers all the essentials of the new Quark in a scant (by computer-book standards) 345 pages. Every page seems to have one or more clear screen shots that illuminate text topics. Procedures for using Quark's tools are simply and elegantly presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manner. Tips and shortcuts appear in all the right places. The book's tersely-written, accurate text and its' emphasis on 'how-to' rather than 'why' makes it the perfect companion to keep open for ready reference while working in Quark. And, the actual design of the book makes it a pleasure to use.

If you need project-style tutorials, don't buy this book; if you require the 'hows' and all the 'whys', and more in-depth coverage, you need David Blatner's "The Quark XPress 4 Book."

But, if you've some working knowledge of DTP (desktop publishing), you'll find Weinmann's "Visual QuickStart Guide to Quark 4.0" to be the single best starting point for learning Quark. And, not only is it refreshingly modest in size, it's s-o-o-o-o inexpensive.