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Layers
Everything in your document has a stacking order but with more complex documents that have dozens,
maybe hundreds or thousands of items, your work area can be become cluttered.
Using layers you can group a collection of items together and then turn the whole collection on or off
(make it visible or hidden) in one easy operation. Layers can be made invisible, to hide parts of your
document. You can give layers names, and you can easily create new layers or delete them. And you can
open a layer and view its contents.
When you select any object, the layer it's on is shown on the status line at the bottom of the window.
The Current Layer
When you create any new object on the page, it's placed in one of the layers, called the active layer or
simply the current layer. On a blank document this will either just be called Layer 1 or, in the case of web
documents, it's called MouseOff. The current layer is shown with a selection arrow
.
Important: All new drawn items, shapes, photos, text, and all pasted items, are placed on the current
layer marked with the
symbol.
You can change the current layer simply by clicking on its row in the Page & Layer Gallery
. It's important to understand that you can have a selected object on any layer or even multiple layers,
and these need not be the current layer. The current layer, with the arrow, only indicates where new
items will be placed.
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