Quark-Express

Who still uses Quark-Express? I do. I use it in my job to layout the newspaper. 

I wish we would update to InDesign to do the newspaper layout. Quark-Express is an easy program to work with, but its to plain. It also has problems viewing cutouts of pictures that are tiff format that come from photoshop, it shows a white back when its not suppose to. I learned how to take the white off by clipping and runaround, but it doesn't take it off completely. Is there a better or easier way to take off the white background of an image so it would have a transparent background in Quark-Express?