Grabber XTensions
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Copy Grabber

Copy Grabber	Copy Grabber

Problem: You have discontigous text — maybe it's even in separate text boxes — fully formatted and you need to move it.

Solution: Use Copy Grabber to draw a marquee around the text and then cut, copy, and paste text it to any area of a page, including vertically or even across multiple text boxes. When cutting or copying text to paste in another location, you can choose whether to include blank lines or character attributes. Additionally, the Copy Grabber Smart Tabs feature can be used to automate management of tabs and line-ending characters when you are cutting or pasting the last column of information in tabular content.

Figure 3a Once you have marqueed an area with the Copy Grabber tool, you prompt the Copy Grabber dialogue box.

Figure 3b Switch to the text content tool, click in a new text box and press command + option + V. Notice that my four text boxes are now one text box and that all of my text formatting has been completely retained.

Cut or Copy an Area of the Page

Follow the steps below to cut or copy text in any area on the page:

Select the Copy Grabber marquee tool.

 

Drag the Copy Grabber marquee tool across the area you wish to cut or copy.

 

Click the cut or copy button.

 

Press command + option + V to paste the cut or copied content.

 

Each time you perform a cut or a copy using Copy Grabber, the text is saved on the Copy Grabber clipboard, which is separate from the QuarkXPress clipboard. You can then use Copy Grabber to paste that text into a different location, different text box, or even a different project.

Tab Grabber

 

Tab Grabber	Tab Grabber

Problem: You have tabbed columns that need a bit of tweaking for proper alignment; worse, the changes are not limited to a single text box, they span a number of text boxes as shown in figure 4a (two separate text boxes with the same tab stops).

Solution: Use Tab Grabber to marquee the column, even across multiple text boxes and adjust the tabs. With Tab Grabber, you can nudge the tab position, change the alignment, and modify the fill character for all of the tabs in a marquee selection.

Figure 4a Here you can see that I have two completely separate text boxes and they are not linked. The problem is that the retail column is a bit out of alignment. I simply marquee the column across both boxes. Go to page 3 to see my results.

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