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Working with Composition Zones Part 2. In part one of this movie on Composition Zones we learned how to share Composition Zones internally and externally for someone on the same network. Sharing with someone remote is exactly the same process. Select the Composition Zones Tool from the Tools Palette, it is in the Box Tool Fly-Out Menu and looks like 2 boxes. Click and drag to define the area here in this column for a story. This is our commentary and it is written by a freelance writer in Colorado. Now click on this Composition Zone and choose Share from the Contextual Menu. Here again name your Composition Zone and choose All Projects from the drop-down menu. Click External and choose a location for the file. This time we can simply save it to our Desktop because we need to send the file to the writer who does not have access to our server. When our writer receives the file she simply opens it in QuarkXPress 8 and constructs her story. She can add Text Boxes, PictureBoxes, Lines or even Tables, as long as she stays within the bounds of this area. Here acting as Hannah the author I'll layout my column. I'll draw a textbox for the article and another textbox will hold the headline and byline. Using the Text Link Tool I can link them together so that the story flows from one to the next. With the Text Chain active I'll Import the story that I drafted in a word processor while I was waiting for the editor to provide the Composition Zone. With my story completed, I choose Save and e-mail it back to the editor. I then use the Usage Dialog Box to update the missing Composition Zone by clicking the Update Button. Navigate to the folder where I stored their received file and then click Open. So far we've created three different Composition Zones; we used the Composition Zones Tool. We made a Composition Zone from the group of objects and we made a Composition Zone for our carrier ad. When we sent the article for proofing the editor didn't care much for the Prairie Dog headline but our writer was unavailable, what now? Simple, click on the Composition Zone and from the Contextual Menu choose Composition Zones Edit. The story will open in a new QuarkXPress 8 project and we can make last minute edits ourselves. Save the file and our newspaper edition is automatically updated. Let's go to page 2 quickly and place our carrier ad on the page. To make Edit, we can access the ad by clicking the tab here at the top of the Project Page, make the edit and Save. Everywhere the ad has been placed even in different files, each will be updated. Now that our paper is finished we need to make sure that future edits to our two stories do not inadvertently update our newspaper. Click on the Composition Zone and choose Unsynchronize. Go back to the Contextual Menu and choose Share and set it up for this project only and as an external file. You may click the check box here if you want the story to appear in the Layout Tabs like our carrier ad does. Now let's freeze that carrier ad so that if it's updated we don't have to worry about it changing and our uses within this edition. Select the Ad and choose Composition Zones from the Contextual Menu, choose Convert to Picture. An EPS of the ad is created and placed here in the same position. For years I have heard QuarkXPress Users request the ability to share their projects with other users, the challenge for any application deciding which edits take precedence. Using Composition Zones you truly have a collaborative workflow and one smart enough to manage the individual users.