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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Create a fill-in-the-blanks form without drawing a line (QuarkXPress)

Designing forms in QuarkXPress can be a frustrating experience, so here's a trick that can save you significant production time. You can easily create a segmented fill-in-the-blanks box (the ones that look like an upside-down comb) in QuarkXPress without the tedium of drawing multiple evenly spaced lines with the Line tool.

To create a segmented form box:

  1. Create a table using the Table tool with multiple columns and only one row.
  2. Choose the Content tool.
  3. [Shift]-click on the top gridline to select it.
  4. Set the top gridlines color to None and you've created a form box that looks.



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