-Working with Text in Corel Draw
- 1. Presented by V.Santhi, Department of Computer Application, Bon Secours College for women, Thanjavur
- 2. TextTool Converting from OneTextType to Another FormattingText TheText Editor
- 3. For typing aText in aCorelDRAW, selectText tool from the tool box. Two types ofText ArtisticText, Paragraph Text ParagraphText Single block ofText ArtisticText Individual text objects
- 4. Small amount ofText Add variety of special efforts to the text Ex:Titles, heading, drop cap
- 5. Used in text-intensive projects, large blocks of text to be added Ex: ads, brochures Paragraph formatting Bullets, tabs,indents
- 6. STEPS: 1. Click New icon 2. Click RectangleTool 3. Fill the Rectangle with color 4. Draw the Second Rectangle beside the first 5. Fill with Color 6. Click pick tool 7. Create duplicates of Rectangle
- 9. STEPS: 1. Click theText tool 2. Place the mouse pointer below rectangle 3. Type the text 4. Press enter to move the cursor to the next line
- 11. Entering the Paragraph text requires creation of a frame for the text STEPS: 1. ClickText tool 2. Place the mouse pointer at the top left corner 3. Keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag the mouse pointer to create the frame
- 14. Possible to convert Artistic to ParagraphText andVice versa STEPS: 1.Click the Pick tool 2. Click anywhere on the text 3. ClickText menu 4. Click on Convert to ArtisticText Option
- 16. Provide number of features in formatting the text Can change the font, font size, bold, italic, underline, bullets
- 17. Text tool is selected, the property bar displays Font Size box. STEPS: 1. Click on theText tool 2. Place the mouse pointer 3. Keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag the mouse pointer over text 4. Move mouse pointer to the property bar click Font Size and Change it
- 20. Can arrange the objects by placing one object on top of the other Multiple objects arranged vertically or horizontally STEPS: 1. SelectTextTool 2. Place the mouse pointer beside the number 4 3. Drag the mouse pointer & change the font size 4. Create duplication of Number 4 using ctrl+D 5. Change the color and drag and object into previous object
- 21. Possible to change the Order of the Objects STEPS: 1.Select theText 2. Click on theArrange 3. Place the mouse pointer on the Order option 4. Click on theTo Front option
- 23. Possible to change the font STEPS: 1. ClickText tool 2. Property bar displays the text properties 3. Change the font name
- 25. Able to apply bullets to the text STEPS: 1. Select theText through pick tool 2. Click the text property bar 3. In the property bar, click Show/Hide bullets
- 26. Text to be added with some shapes also STEPS: 1. Click Rectangle tool 2. Place the mouse pointer at the top left corner of the first rectangle 3. Keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag the mouse pointer to draw a rectangle 4. Fill the rectangle with white color 5. Click Interactive BlendTool, in that select Interactive Envelope tool 6. Drag like Curly line
- 27. 7. Click Bezier tool 8. Place the mouse pointer in middle of the rectangle and click left mouse button 9. Draw a line with in the rectangle 10. Finish the line like a curve 11. ClickText tool 12. Place the mouse pointer in the beginning of the Bezier line and it changes to a text cursor with Curly line
- 29. Webdings is a font type in windows This font contains a graphic representation of all the characters STEPS 1. Draw a Circle 2. Click Small arrow in the OutlineTool, Change its Oultline option 3. Next ClickTextTool andType “P” and change it font name asWebdings
- 31. CorelDRAW provideText editor to work with the text Needed when working with large blocks of text TASKS: 1. Convert the text from Upper Case to Lower Case andVice versa 2. Proofread our documents automatically by running a Spell-Check 3. Check the documents for any Grammatical Mistakes 4. InbuiltThesaurus
- 32. To use theText Editor for Editing and Formatting theText STEPS: 1. Open a New Document 2. ClickText tool and type theText 3. Create aText Frame and type a Paragraph 4. ClickText Menu, in that Click EditText option
- 36. InText Editor Click Full Alignment in the property bar of theText Editor
- 38. Can change the text as BOLD, ITALIC, Underline, etc STEPS: 1. SelectText 2. Click EditText, in that make the changes in the Property bar
- 40. Text Editor also do Spell Check and Correct the Spelling Mistakes STEPS: 1. ClickTextTool 2. Click theText to be Spell Checked 3. In EditText, Select Options, it have Replacements, Replace with
- 43. Provide a option to find the synonyms. STEPS: 1. SelectText to be find for Synonyms 2. Click EditText in that Select Options 3. ClickTheasurus
- 45. Provides Search for specific text within the currently active document STEPS: 1. ClickText tool 2. Select EditText, in that click options 3. Select FindText for searching the text
- 47. Provides the Find and ReplacementOptions too. STEPS: 1. SelectText tool 2. Click Edit menu option and select Replace or Replace all options
- 50. KerningText The process of adjusting space between individual characters to improve their appearance is called Kerning
- 52. To change the formatting of an individual character in artistic text or paragraph, text or text frame STEPS: 1. Select Shape tool and click theText 2. Make the changes
- 53. Can assign a drop cap characters STEPS: 1. ClickText tool 2. Click Show/Hide Drop cap in property bar