can anyone help with quick question about corel draw?

[Alison Falzon]

If the text is done as artistic text, rather than paragraph text I would just select the eps logo, then place a ruler guide on the central cross, then move the text and line it up to the guide (if that makes sense!)

[Adam McGuire]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. What you’re saying does make sense, but it’s paragraph text not artistic. I might try again. It was only for a mock up, but I wanted it all to be centred to the page.

Regards

Adam

[Alison Falzon]

Or you can click on "layout" at the the top, then "align and distrubute", there are different options you can choose that might help

[Nick Minall]

If you need it centre of the page just select it and press P on the keyboard

[Stevo Chartrand]

Group your logo. Select your text, hold shift, select the logo then hit "e" and "c". Done!
(corel 11)
Stevo

[Adam McGuire]

Hi,

That flippin brilliant that is! Then I can simply adjust the height of each part of the logo! Cool! 🙂

Thanks again,

Adam

[Alison Falzon]

I never realised all those keyboard shortcuts existed! very handy!

[Alan Drury]

There are loads of shortcuts in Draw, try this – hold the shift key down and drag corner node, object will then resize in proporting from the centre.
Alan D

[Stevo Chartrand]

Here’s a few more shortcut keys.
I use these as much as possible. It really does speed things up and once you really get to know them it’ll become second nature.

Stevo 😀

Ctrl+A – Select All
Ctrl+Z – Undo- I believe you can have up to 99 undos!!
Ctrl+Shift+A – Re-do
Ctrl+X – Cut
Ctrl+C – Copy
Ctrl+V – Paste
Ctrl+O – Open File
Ctrl+P – Print
Ctrl+S – Save
Ctrl+W – Window Refresh

Duplicating Objects:
Ctrl+D This way you have to set your X & Y axis parameters.
Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V Duplicates object right on top of original to the front.
"+" sign on your number pad. Duplicates object right on top if original but will keep it on the same layer.
Select object- Drag it- and right click with the left click button at the same time.

Align and Distribute
Align Left- L
Align Right – R
Align Top – T
Align Bottom – B
Aligh Horizontal – E
Align Vertically- C
Center of Page – P

Order
To Front Shift+PageUp
To Back Shift+PageDown
Forward One Ctrl+PageUp
Back One Ctrl+PageDown

Grouping
Ctrl+G Group
Ctrl+U Ungroup
Ctrl+U+U Ungroup all
Combine Ctrl+L
Break Apart Ctrl+K

Effects:
Ctrl+F9 Contour
Ctrl+F7 Envelope

Holding Shift when resizing will size it uniformly.
Holding Ctrl when moving and object will keep it on axis
Double click on ruler. Brings up nudge options menu
Double click on Box Tool will make box the size of your page.
Z – Zoom

[Alison Falzon]

That’s great! I use some of the shortcuts already – for copying / duplicating etc, but I didn’t realise there were all those layout ones in Corel.

You’ll be suprised at how much time it saves!

Thank you for that, it’ll come in handy!

[Stevo Chartrand]

You’re welcome!
I’m sure there are a few more that I don’t know. So if anybody wants to add to this, I’m all ears!

Stevo

😀

[Adam McGuire]

Flippin eck! That’s a list….I suppose you never think about how many you know until you start to write them out!

Adam

[Andy Gorman]

Ctrl Q – Convert to curves

[Phill Fenton]

Ctrl Alt del – Sh1t 😕

[Alan Drury]

Too many to mention and VBA can be assigned short cuts too.
Alan D