Here's my collection of the best tips & tricks posted in this forum:
(Newest tip is in red)
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QuarkXPress Tips & Tricks
Drawing, graphics, illustrations, AI
Better custom sharp shadows on text
http://forums.quark.com/p/339/901.aspx#901
Get paths from Illustrator as native QuarkXPress bezier curves
http://forums.quark.com/t/370.aspx
Create a pie
http://forums.quark.com/t/325.aspx
Mirror shapes
http://forums.quark.com/t/306.aspx
Images, Pictures, PSD
Scale pictures more than 1000% or less than 10%
http://forums.quark.com/p/371/1003.aspx#1003
Pictures to run with text
http://forums.quark.com/t/305.aspx
Multiple picture import / drag & drop
http://labs.quark.com/projectdetail.aspx?did=17
http://forums.quark.com/t/344.aspx
Text, typography, Word & Excel import
Automatically growing text boxes
http://forums.quark.com/t/373.aspx
Text boxes with columns with different width
http://forums.quark.com/p/372/1007.aspx#1007
Sort text in QuarkXPress
http://forums.quark.com/p/7538/31723.aspx#31723
Bullets
http://forums.quark.com/p/380/1050.aspx#1050
Import of large Excel tables (multiple pages)
http://forums.quark.com/p/320/814.aspx#810
Add line numbers to text
http://forums.quark.com/p/304/698.aspx#698
Auto-number (e.g. for tickets)
http://forums.quark.com/p/304/747.aspx#747
Have both page numbers of a spread on a single page
http://forums.quark.com/p/15068/82747.aspx#82747
Search and replace special characters
http://forums.quark.com/t/284.aspx
Search and replace several replace pairs in one go
http://forums.quark.com/p/22264/90179.aspx#90179
Style sheet that forces a page break
http://forums.quark.com/p/7725/32441.aspx#32441
Boxes
Cut/Copy boxes without switching to Item Tool
http://forums.quark.com/t/22428.aspx#90504
Prep, Prefs, Pages, document construction
Master pages based on master pages (workaround)
http://forums.quark.com/t/374.aspx
Output
Export QuarkXPress document (groups) as JPEG or GIF
http://forums.quark.com/t/21170.aspx
Export QuarkXPress document (layout) as layered TIFF
http://forums.quark.com/t/21171.aspx
Other
Create a custom color scheme for QuarkXPress 8:
http://forums.quark.com/t/19279.aspx
Assign custom shortcuts to menus (Mac only):
http://forums.quark.com/p/392/1072.aspx#1072
Automatic synchronization of resources (colors, style sheets) across documents:
http://forums.quark.com/t/20384.aspx
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Whenever there are good tips posted I will link them from this post.
Feel free to send me any you would like to see here. Just hit the Contact button above this post.
Enjoy!
Matthias