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Viewing layers, pages, and objects

You can choose different views that let you display pages, layers, or all the objects in your document. The view you choose depends on the

complexity of your document and the task you are performing. For example, in a long multipage document, you can choose a pages-only

view so that you can navigate the document more easily and view only one page at a time. The Current page, layers only view lets you view

and reorder all the layers that affect the current page, including the master layers.

For information about how facing page views affect layers, see “To view facing pages” on page 62.

For information about how layers are affected when you save a file to an earlier version of CorelDRAW, see “To save a drawing” on page 63.

To create a layer

If the Object manager docker is not open, click Object Object manager.

2 Perform a task from the following table.

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To Do the following

Create a local layer In the upper-right corner of the Object manager docker, click the

flyout button , and click New layer.

Create a master layer for all pages In the upper-right corner of the Object manager docker, click the

flyout button , and click New master layer (all pages).

Create a master layer for odd pages In the upper-right corner of the Object manager docker, click the

flyout button , and click New master layer (odd pages).

This command is available only when the active page is an odd

page.

Create a master layer for even pages In the upper-right corner of the Object manager docker, click the

flyout button , and click New master layer (even pages).

This command is available only when the active page is an even

page.

To use a layer in the drawing, you must first make the layer active by clicking the layer name in the Object manager docker. The

layer name appears in a red bold font to indicate that it is the active layer. When you start a drawing, the default layer (Layer 1) is the

active layer.

Master layers are always added to the master page. Content added to these layers is visible on all pages of the document, all odd

pages, or all even pages, depending on the type of master layer that you have chosen.

Master layers for odd and even pages cannot be created in Facing Pages view. If you have created odd and even master pages before

switching to Facing Pages view, the odd and even master layers will be converted to all-page master layers. For more information

about facing pages, see “To view facing pages” on page 62.