CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 11. Learn to create outstanding fine art and eye-catching commercial graphics with one powerful tool! CorelDRAW X5: The Official Guide is your comprehensive reference and workbook to get you started designing visually captivating CorelDRAW artwork. Learn, step by step, how to create the illustrations you've imagined, quickly assemble layouts for print and package designs, import and edit photos, master the art of typography and the science of color theory, make 3D scenes from 2D objects, and apply special effects to ordinary pictures. Packed with expert techniques and advice for creating professional-quality art, this. | 64 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Opening and Saving Templates You can open any template file that has a .CDT extension you ve saved from X5 or from any previous version for editing and change its actual template format and or its content. Use the File Open command and choose CorelDRAW Template CDT as the file type. Before the file opens a dialog shown at right will ask whether you want to open the template as a new document or for editing. If your aim is to open a new document based on the template content and structure leave New From Template selected in combination with the With Contents option. If your intention is to edit the template file itself choose Open For Editing. When saving an edited template file performing a Save command automatically saves the file as a template without opening any dialogs and without the need to re-specify the file as a CDT template file in the Save dialog. Additionally a CDT file you opened will appear on the File Open Recent list and if you choose it it will simply open without the dialog shown in the illustration. Clipboard Commands As you probably already know the Windows Clipboard is a temporary place that s capable of storing the last objects copied and is a feature of your computer s operating system. While the data you copied or cut is stored in your system s RAM you can paste duplicates of the data into your document. The three most common Clipboard commands you ll likely use are Copy Cut and Paste each of which is accessible either from the Edit menu or from the standard toolbar as shown here. Cut Copy and Paste are also standard Windows commands so you can use the keyboard shortcuts CTRL C Copy CTRL V Paste and CTRL X Cut to speed up your work. Cut Copy Paste T 4 31 TIP I To create duplicates of your selected objects immediately press the key on your keyboard s numeric keypad. Copies immediately are placed in front of the selected objects in the document and in exactly the same page position. This action does not
