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Layer Operations
Clicking the Layers button on the top of the Page & Layer Gallery will display only the layers on the
current page. This is a mode - the layers button stays depressed. While in layers mode, as you move to
different pages the layers for the current page are always shown and all other page nodes are collapsed.
Click the Layers
button again to turn off layers mode.
You can re-order the layers, that is the stacking order on the page, by using drag and drop on the layers
in the Page & Layer Gallery
.
You can rename a layer by performing a second (slow) click on the layer name. (The first click would
select the layer.) This is very like file renaming in Windows Explorer.
Holding the mouse pointer over the small layer icons
will show a thumbnail of the contents of the layer.
When you have selected a layer (clicked on it, to highlight the layer) the New, Duplicate and Delete
buttons on the top of the Page & Layer Gallery will do as they imply. The New
button will create a new blank layer and place it at the top of the stack. You can re-arrange the order by
dragging it to the required position.
The Duplicate
button will copy the layer and its contents and place it on top of the stack - that is on top of all other
objects on the page.
Layer Properties
This opens the Layer Properties dialog.
Creating layers and editing layer properties
Using the Layer tab you can:

Create a new layer or edit an existing one.

Make the layer editable and visible by default.

Define the layer as a web page background that will not appear when printed.
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Specify that all objects in the layer will only repel text objects within the same layer. This prevents
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