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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
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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
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You can align text within a frame or in different
text frames by using the baseline grid. This is