Quarkxpress Tips & Tools

Rating:
Summary: Incoherent, expensive; 60% is out-of-date XTensions catalog
Review: This 256-page book comprises 96 pages of tips in large, poorly-laid-out type; nearly 30 pages of a keystroke poster chopped into useless bits; and 125 pages describing XTensions for use with Quark. The last section is available free and up-to-date from The XChange. For $27.95, you might expect a floppy disk or at least some organization and coherency, but in the introduction to the book the editor says quite frankly that any attempt for logical organization of the tips was abandoned.

For real tips with focus, design, and editing, try QuarkXPress Tips and Tricks (ISBN 1566091373), which includes a CD-ROM for Macintosh at only $34.95; or for a solid grounding in QuarkXPress menus and basic tips and features, buy QuarkXPress for Dummies (ISBN 1568842171)or QuarkXPress for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart (ISBN 155091284).

Whatever you do, avoid this facade of a book with a copyright of a 1996, but which states clearly the tips come from 1990 to 1994