Welcome to Managing Editor Software Inc.’s Managing Editor XTension Pro manual. This manual will give you detailed information on how your MEXT Pro can be used to enhance your final pagination and design tool, QuarkXPress. This manual is also provided with the live version of MEXT Pro. This demonstration version of MEXT Pro will only gather two items in each gather set. Please note that any gather sets created with the demonstration version of this software will not be stored after exiting QuarkXPress.
Using This Manual
Your Managing Editor XTension manual is divided into chapters with each chapter containing topics and subtopics appropriate to the functions it describes. If you need to return to this section on how to use your manual, press Command (or Apple Key)-1 and you will be returned to the beginning of this chapter.
Chapter Navigation
There are five methods for moving between chapters in the manual. The fifth method utilizes the Table of Contents which is described in the section following this one.
Keyboard shortcuts: You can quickly move to a specific chapter by holding the Command key and pressing the chapter number.
Contents Menu: You can also select the appropriate chapter from the Contents menu.
Chapter Indicator: To use the chapter indicator at the bottom-left corner of the window, click and hold on the current chapter name and a pop-up menu will appear. Select the desired chapter and the program will take you there in the manual.
Scroll Bars: You can also use the horizontal scroll bar to move between chapters. To move back one chapter, click on the left horizontal scroll arrow; to move forward one chapter, click on the right horizontal scroll arrow.
Table of Contents
This manual contains a special Table of Contents that gives you access to the chapters and their respective topics. To open the Table of Contents, either press Command-K or choose the Table of Contents option from the Contents menu.
Once you’ve opened your Table of Contents, double-click on the topic or chapter heading you’d like to view and the program will open the chapter to the location you’ve chosen. You can also click on an entry in the Table of Contents and press Return to select a chapter or topic.
Moving Within Chapters
Vertical Scroll Bars: To move one line at a time within a chapter, click on either of the vertical scroll bars. Your screen will be slowly scrolled either up or down to reveal a different part of the document.
Page Up Key: The Page Up key on an extended keyboard moves you backward one screen in the current chapter.
Page Down Key: The Page Down key on an extended keyboard moves you forward one screen in the current chapter.
Home Key: On an extended keyboard, pressing the Home key takes you to the beginning of your currently active chapter.
End Key: Pressing the End key on an extended keyboard takes you to the end of your currently active chapter.
