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Placeholder for image of the Layers palette.
This option is turned on by default. When it is on and one or more items are
copied and pasted, then the elements will be pasted on the same layer from
which they were copied. Layer matching is done by name, so if the item comes
from a different document with different layer names, a new layer with that
name will be created.
If the preference is turned off, all items will be pasted on the layer that is
currently active.
Changing the stacking order of layers
Stacking on a layer works the same way it does on a “plain” page. Within a layer,
each item has its own position in the stacking order (the front-to-back
positioning of the items on the layer). When you draw items on a layer, new
items are stacked in front of existing items on that layer. You can use the Send
to Back, Send Backward, Bring to Front, and Bring Forward commands (Item
menu) to change the stacking order of items within a layer, but these commands
do not move items to different layers. However, everything on a front layer
displays in front of everything on a rear layer.
To change the stacking order of layers, you can drag a layer to a new position in
the Layers palette. (The layer at the top of the Layers palette is the frontmost
layer of the layout.)
Layers and text runaround
Items on layers follow the standard runaround rule in QuarkXPress: Text can
only wrap around items that are in front of that text. For example, if you draw a