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Adding and manipulating text
Corel DESIGNER provides multiple ways to add and manipulate text (also known as ‘type’). You can create two types of text objects: artistic
text and paragraph text. Artistic text is useful for adding a single word or a short line of text. Paragraph text is suitable for creating text-
intensive documents, such as newsletters or brochures.
You can change the position and appearance of text. For example, you can fit text to a path, wrap text around objects, or rotate text. You
can also format the appearance of characters and paragraphs. For more information, see “Formatting text” on page 397.
This section contains the following topics:
• “Importing and pasting text” (page 375)
• “Adding artistic text” (page 377)
• “Adding paragraph text” (page 377)
• “Adding columns to text frames” (page 381)
• “Combining and linking paragraph text frames” (page 382)
• “Aligning text by using the baseline grid” (page 385)
• “Selecting text” (page 386)
• “Finding, editing, and converting text” (page 386)
• “Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text” (page 388)
• “Moving text” (page 389)
• “Wrapping text” (page 390)
• “Fitting text to a path” (page 391)
• “Inserting special characters, symbols, and glyphs” (page 393)
• “Embedding graphics” (page 396)
• “Working with legacy text” (page 396)
Importing and pasting text
You can import text in a new or existing document. This allows you to author text in a word processor and then add it to a Corel DESIGNER
document. Corel DESIGNER supports the following text file formats:
• ANSI Text (TXT)
• Microsoft Word Document (DOC) files
• Microsoft Word Open XML Document (DOCX) files
• WordPerfect file (WPD)
• Rich Text Format (RTF) files