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CorelDraw 101: Starting your
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Setup Guidelines
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Create a New Guideline
Click on the vertical ruler and drag a vertical guideline onto your page.
Position the guideline where you require and release mouse button. Click
on the horizontal ruler and drag to place a horizontal guideline in the
same way.
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Move a Guideline
Choose the Pick Tool and click on the guideline. It will turn red to show
it is selected. Move your cursor over the guideline and the cursor will
turn to a single double-ended arrow. Click and drag to a new location.
While it is moving, your cursor will change to two double-ended arrows
and the moving guideline will be blue. Position and release your mouse
button. The guideline turns red. Click off the guideline and the guideline
will again turn blue which indicates it is no longer active.
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Rotate Guideline
Double click on guideline. It will turn red and curved, double-ended arrows
will appear at each end of the guideline. Click and drag on the arrows
to rotate guideline. You can restrain the angle of the new position to
15 degree increments by pressing your CTRL key as you move the guideline.
Position and release mouse button. You can also move the center of rotation
by clicking and dragging the center target on the guideline to a new position.
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Snap Objects to Guidelines
Choose View, Snap to Guidelines in the Main Menu. This will assign a magnetic
quality to your guideline. When an object is moved close to the guideline
it will snap into place without exact positioning. To remove the snap
to guidelines property, choose View, Snap to Guidelines again.
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Turn Guidelines Off
Choose View, Guidelines to turn the guideline display off. Repeat to turn
guideline display on. Guidelines remain in place when the display is turned
off.
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Set Guidelines Numerically
Choose View, Guidelines Setup. Choose Horizontal, Vertical or Slanted
from the Options list. Enter the numerical position where you would like
to place a guideline and click Add. You can add several guidelines at
one time. Click OK when complete.
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Change Guideline Color
Choose View, Guideline Setup from Main Menu. Click on color fly-out and
choose a new color for guideline, or choose Other for the full range of
CorelDraw color models.
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Next page
CorelDraw 101 Tutorial Index
Set Page Size/Orientation
Page Layout (Booklet)
Label Setup
Setting Page Background
Setup Guidelines
Create a Grid
Set Workspace Rulers
Edit Page Properties
  
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