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Colors are added to the Document palette
when you add a color from one of the color
libraries, when you sample a color from
another document or another application, and
when you apply fills to objects.
The Document palette is automatically updated as you
add colors to your document. You can use this palette
to create a color scheme for your project.
To reuse objects in your documents, you can
either copy and paste the objects, or you can
duplicate them. Using the first method, you
can copy an object to the Clipboard and then
paste the object in your document. Using the
second method, you can quickly create
multiple duplicates of the object and place
them in your document.
Left: The object has been copied and pasted. Right: The
object has been duplicated.
To create one copy of an object, click Edit
` Copy. To create a series of duplicates,
click Edit ` Step and repeat.Positioning objects
CorelDRAW provides several tools to help you
position and align objects on the page. You
can use these tools to avoid small gaps or
misalignments that are not apparent on-screen
but become noticeable after printing.You can use snapping to align an object with
another object in a document. When snapping
is turned on, snap points appear in various
locations around an object, such as the corner,
center, or edge.Left: The blue rectangle is dragged down to snap to the
red rectangle. Right: The two objects are snapped
together.To turn on object snapping, click View `
Snap to ` Snap to objects.If you want to align an object with another
object but do not want to snap directly to the
object, you can use dynamic guides. Dynamic
guides are temporary guidelines that are based
on one of the following snap points of an
object: center, node, quadrant, or text
baseline. You can drag the object along the