Every page of this how-to guide is crammed with menus, screen captures, and step-by-step instructions. Each section takes the user through various menus and program functions as well as a series of how-tos. Author Elaine Weinmann organizes Visual QuickStart around concepts; for example, there is a multiple-item chapter that explains how to group, lock, delete, and align sets of objects. No other book on QuarkXPress employs this kind of organization scheme, a design which helps focus users on the kinds of program behavior they need to use and tells users what they can expect. Each chapter contains helpful illustrations that show before and after screen shots, menu selections, dialog boxes with values to fill in, and error messages or responses that QuarkXPress can generate. These often-baffling tasks seem simple in this visual approach.For users who are very comfortable with the Macintosh interface and who have spent a few months or more working with another desktop publishing (DTP) program like Adobe Pagemaker or Macromedia FreeHand, this book will get them running in QuarkXPress in a matter of hours.