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Adding and manipulating text
CorelDRAW 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 407.
This section contains the following topics:
• “Importing and pasting text” (page 381)
• “Adding artistic text” (page 383)
• “Adding paragraph text” (page 383)
• “Adding columns to text frames” (page 387)
• “Combining and linking paragraph text frames” (page 388)
• “Aligning text by using the baseline grid” (page 391)
• “Selecting text” (page 392)
• “Finding, editing, and converting text” (page 392)
• “Shifting, rotating, mirroring, and flipping text” (page 394)
• “Moving text” (page 396)
• “Wrapping text” (page 397)
• “Fitting text to a path” (page 398)
• “Inserting special characters, symbols, and glyphs” (page 400)
• “Embedding graphics” (page 404)
• “Working with legacy text” (page 405)
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 CorelDRAW
document. CorelDRAW 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