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Setting project preferences. Part one. Most tasks within QuarkXPress 8 have accompany and preference settings. This is how you define your preferred method of interaction with the features, tools and applications. In most cases, preferences are exactly that; the preferred method. And you may override the preferences with the local setting. In other cases, preferences can only be overridden by returning to the Preferences Dialog Box and changing the settings. In this movie I will show you how to set the preferences related to creating and interacting on the project level. We'll skip around a bit because the preferences that we need are scattered throughout. As we make our way through the video tutorial, we'll cover other preferences as they become relevant. The first thing to keep in mind about preferences is that when you set preferences without an open project, you're defining the behavior for all new projects that you create. In that case the categories will be titled Default. In this case you're not changing the settings for existing projects that you may open after you've changed the settings. To change preferences of an existing project, open the project, then define the settings. When you do this, the preferences will be for the type of layout in which you are working. Let's get started by launching the Preferences Dialog Box. On a Mac, go to the QuarkXPress Menu and choose Preferences. If you're on a Windows PC, go to the Edit Menu and choose Preferences. The Preferences Dialog Box is divided into logical sections; Application, Project, Print Layout, Interactive Layout and Web Layout. We'll focus on the Print Layout for the purpose of this video tutorial. We'll start here at the Display Preferences. Using this you can set the width and color of your paste board by typing in a value and clicking the swatch to choose a new color. You can change the color of the active page in the same way. This will help you to more clearly see the page against the paste board background and when you have more than one page in your viewing area, what page is active? Opaque Text Box Editing is useful if you have a background image with text boxes that overlay them. Using this feature, when you select a text box for editing, the background of the text box becomes white enabling you to more easily view the text when your background renders it unreadable. This might not work if your text is white however. From these two drop-down menus, you can set the number of color and gray levels for the display of tifs. Additionally, you may choose the color profile for your monitor. When you perform certain functions in QuarkXPress for the first time, you're presented with an alert dialog box. In that dialog box you also have the option of suppressing that alert in the future. Once you've suppressed it for future instances, this button allows you to reset it so that the alerts appear again. Using Input Settings, you define how QuarkXPress 8 responds to your mouse and keyboard. You can set the speed at which the page will scroll and if you choose Live Scroll, whether or not the page preview updates while scrolling. The Quotes Drop-Down Menu enables you to convert the quotes of imported text during the import process and of quote marks as you type them. This will not change existing quote marks within your project. If you use dashes or commas when defining the page numbering you will use on your pages, then that will conflict with the default method for defining page ranges when printing; type in these fields to define characters other than dashes or commas when those are used in page numbering. For Mac users, you may define the purpose of the Control Key. If you're using a one-button mouse, you will probably want to prompt the Contextual Menu with the Control Key. But if you have a two-button mouse, use the setting to provide a shortcut to the Zoom Tool. Add the Shift Key to Control to get the opposing action. Set this number a bit higher to delay the amount of time before QuarkXPress 8 draws a preview of an item being dragged. Keep it low if you always want to preview. Tick this check box to enable drag and drop text features which I will explain later in the move on text in this video tutorial. Tick this check box if you want PictureBoxes to maintain attributes such as size and offset when you import a different picture into the box. Tick this check box to enable tool tips that are prompted by hovering over a feature. In part two of this video we will continue with the project-based preferences.