Here’s a graphic I made following That Wicked Worn Look tutorial from Cameron Moll. The tutorial contains a nice palette of retro Photoshop colors to download. These colors alone will bring you back in time. My cookbook image is “aged” to about the colors of my mom’s copy of The Settlement Cookbook she received as a wedding present in 1940, and the blue background is the color that my dad painted our kitchen some time in the ’60s.

One thing to remember: in Quark, to see the link symbol on the master page, you must have the guides visible (press F7). You can make a text box automatic by linking to that symbol even if you didn’t make an automatic text box when you first created the document.

Also, if you have a series of text boxes linked like that, when you paste a long piece of text into the first box, you don’t have to have enough pages waiting to hold all of it; Quark will create the needed pages.

Just figured out how I could put sequential automatic numbering on 500 tickets in Quark, printing 5 tickets per page.

Generating the list of numbers. In a blank Word document, generate a list of numbers by inserting an AUTONUM field (Insert - Field - Autonum). Then copy and paste it repeatedly (hold down Ctrl+V for a minute or so) until you have the 500 numbers. But these are codes, not editable text. So, select and copy the whole list. Make a new document, choose Edit - Paste Special, and paste as Unformatted Text. Do a search and replace to get rid of the periods that Word puts in the auto numbers.

Flowing the numbers into the ticket layout in Quark. On to Quark. On the master page, create an automatic text box to hold the numbers. Link it so that the link symbol in the top left corner of the page is unbroken. But since you’ll want to print more than one ticket on each page, make as many as you need on the master page and link the number boxes in a chain to the first box.

Now, make a new page of tickets using the master page. Paste the list of numbers into the first number box on the first page. The numbers flow from that box through to the boxes on the subsequent pages.

The finished ticket: