CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 Guidebook

210 | CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 Guidebook

To break the link between text frames,

select the frames, and click Te x t `

Paragraph text frame ` Unlink.

To create a linked frame on another page

with the same size and position as an

existing frame, click the Te x t f l o w tab at

the bottom of the first frame, click the

corresponding Page tab on the document

navigator, and hover over the area of the

drawing page that corresponds to the

position of the first frame. When a preview

of the frame appears, click to create the

linked frame.

When you click the Te x t f l o w tab at the bottom of the
text frame, the pointer changes.

When you point to another text frame or object, the
pointer changes to a black arrow.

The blue arrow shows that the two text frames are

linked and indicates the direction of the text flow.

Placeholder text

CorelDRAW

If you want to see the general layout of your

document before you add the final content,

you can fill the text frames with temporary

placeholder text. You can format placeholder

text just like any other text, or create custom

placeholder text.

Give it a try

• Right-click an empty text frame, and click
  Insert placeholder text.

To create custom placeholder text, save

your text in a word-processing application

as placeholder.rtf, and place the file in the

following folder:

My Documents\Corel\Corel Content.

Baseline grid

CorelDRAW

You can align text within a frame or in different

text frames by using the baseline grid. This is