Use the Input Settings pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to customize scrolling and other “on-the-fly” actions.

• Use the Scrolling area to specify how quickly you can scroll through layouts and how layouts update on screen. Check Live Scroll to update the layout view as you drag the scroll boxes in layout window scroll bars. To turn Live Scroll on and off while you are scrolling, press Option/Alt as you drag a scroll box.
• Use the Format drop-down menu and the Smart Quotes check box to choose a style for converting and entering quotation marks. To specify the default characters to be used with the Smart Quotes feature and with the Convert Quotes option in the Import dialog box (File > Import), choose an option from the Quotes drop-down menu. Check Smart Quotes to force the application to automatically replace foot and inch marks (‘ and “) with the chosen quotation marks as you type.
• Hyphens and commas are the default separators for indicating sequential and nonsequential ranges in the Pages field of the Print dialog box for a Print layout. If you specified commas or hyphens as part of page numbers in the Section dialog box (Page menu), you need to change the default separators here. For example, if your page numbers are “A–1, A–2,” then you cannot specify ranges in the Pages field using hyphens. To edit the separators, enter new characters in the Sequential and Nonsequential fields.
• Mac OS only: Use the Key Press Activates area to control what the Control key does. Click Zoom to make the Control key temporarily invoke the Zoom tool . Click Contextual Menu to make the Control key invoke a context menu. (Control+Shift performs whichever function is not selected.)
• Use the Delay Before Live Refresh Drag field to set the time delay between clicking and dragging for live refresh. Live refresh shows any runaround changes caused by the moving item in real time. If this option is checked, you can activate live refresh by pressing the mouse button until the resize handles disappear and then dragging the item.
• Check Drag and Drop Text to cut, copy, and paste text in a story with the mouse rather than with menu or keyboard commands. On Mac OS, you can temporarily turn on this feature by holding Control+Command before starting a drag. To cut and paste, select the text, and then drag it to a new location. To copy and paste, select the text; then press Shift while you drag it to a new location.
• Check Show Tool Tips to display the names of tools or palette icons when you place your pointer over them.
• Check Maintain Picture Box Attributes to make a picture box “remember” its scaling and other attributes by default when you import a new picture into the box.