Aligning text

CorelDRAW lets you align text in various ways. You can align paragraph text horizontally and vertically in relation to its text frame. You can align paragraph text with the baseline grid. For more information, see Aligning text by using the baseline grid. You can also align text to a selected object.

You can align a text object with other objects by using the baseline of the first line, the baseline of the last line, or the edge of the text frame.

Artistic text can be aligned horizontally, but not vertically. When you align artistic text, the entire text object is aligned in relation to the bounding box. If characters have not been shifted horizontally, applying no alignment produces the same result as applying left alignment.

Artistic text is aligned within the bounding box, which is indicated by eight selection handles (black squares). The text at the top is left-aligned; the text at the bottom is right-aligned.

To align text horizontally

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Using the Text tool , select the text that you want to align.

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Using the Pick tool , click an artistic text object or a text frame whose content you want to align.

If the Object properties docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object properties.

2 .	In the Object properties docker, click the Paragraph button to display the paragraph-related options.

You can also align text horizontally by clicking the Horizontal alignment button on the property bar and choosing an alignment style from the list box. The property bar displays an icon that corresponds to the current alignment style.

You can align multiple paragraphs in a text frame by selecting them with the Text tool and choosing an alignment style.

To align paragraph text vertically

1 .	Using the Pick tool , click a text frame.

If the Object properties docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object properties.

2 .	In the Object properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options.

To align text with an object

1 .	Using the Pick tool , hold down Shift, click the text object, and then click the object.

2 .	Click Object Align and distribute Align and distribute.

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First line baseline — uses the baseline of the first line of text to align the objects

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Last line baseline — uses the baseline of the last line of text to align the objects

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Bounding box — aligns text with its bounding box

4 .	In the Align objects to area, click the Active objects button .

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Align left — to align the left edges of objects

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Align center horizontally — to align object centers along a vertical axis

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Align right — to align the right edges of objects

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Align top — to align the top edges of objects

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Align center vertically — to align object centers along a horizontal axis

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Align bottom — to align the bottom edges of objects

To align objects from their outlines, click the Outline button .

If you select the text objects one at a time, the last object selected is the reference point for aligning the other objects. If you marquee select the objects before you align them, the object that is positioned in the upper-left corner of the selection is used.

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