# Quark XPress question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 3, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133 "2002-12-03T03:05:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133/1 "2002-12-03T03:05:00Z")

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There’s a sequence of keys that you can press that, when you want to delete something, will cause a tiny little man to walk out from the left side of the screen and shoot what you intend to delete with a laser beam, resulting in a colorful explosion. Does anybody remember what it is?

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133/2 "2002-12-03T03:22:41Z")

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Yeah, it’s SHIFT-OPTION-COMMAND-K (on a mac, anyway)

Make sure your object is selected before you do this though. And I think you have to have the “Move” tool selected. Damn, he’s cute.

I’m still looking for the key-command to turn Quark into an OSX Native app… still no dough… I’ll keep you posted.

-kev

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133/3 "2002-12-03T03:32:48Z")

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I was filling out a skills questionnaire for a temp agency today, and I figured that if I was going to claim “Advanced” knowledge of Quark, I should know how to summon the little man if asked.

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**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133/4 "2002-12-03T23:43:09Z")

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Do you know about the Easter Eggs in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop?

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**Author:** ![glarGH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@glarGH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glarGH)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133/5 "2002-12-04T02:15:18Z")

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Teehee… Quark 5 beta has a melty wash erase instead of the lazer man.

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**Author:** ![censored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@censored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/censored)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quark-xpress-question/140133/6 "2002-12-04T02:40:42Z")

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another quark q: on the page layout window (where you see little icons for pages and their #s etc) what is the significance of a page having a A in the middle versus no A?