CorelDRAW Help | Import and paste text

Import and paste text

You can import text in a new or existing document. This allows you to author text in a word processor and then add it to a CorelDRAW document. CorelDRAW supports the following text file formats:

• ANSI Text (TXT)

• Microsoft Word Document (DOC) files

• Microsoft Word Open XML Document (DOCX) files

• WordPerfect file (WPD)

• Rich Text Format (RTF) files

When importing or pasting text, you can choose to keep or discard fonts and formatting. Maintaining fonts ensures that imported or pasted text retains its original font. Maintaining formatting preserves information such as bullets and columns. If you choose to discard fonts and formatting, the properties of the selected text are applied to the imported or pasted text. If no text is selected, the default font and formatting properties are applied to the imported or pasted text. For more information about importing files, see Import files. For more information about pasting, see To paste an object into a drawing.

The text import cursor lets you place text on the drawing page.

You can import text in a selected text frame, or, if you did not select a text frame, the imported text is automatically inserted in a new text frame in the document window. By default, the size of text frames remains static, regardless of how much text you add to them. Any text that does not fit the frame is hidden and the frame appears red until you enlarge it or link it to another text frame. You can adjust the text size so that the text fits perfectly in the frame. For more information, see Combine and link paragraph text frames.

To import text in a document

1 Using the Text tool

, position the cursor in the text frame where you want to import the text.

If you do not have a text frame in the document, skip step 1 and proceed to step 2.

2 Click File

Import.

3 Choose the drive and folder where the file is stored.

4 Click the filename.

5 Click Import.

6 In the Importing/Pasting Text dialog box, choose one of the following options:

• Maintain Fonts and Formatting

• Maintain Formatting Only

• Discard Fonts and Formatting

If you want to apply CMYK black to the imported black text, enable the Force CMYK Black check box. This check box is available when you choose an option that maintains text formatting.

7 Do one of the following:

• Position the import cursor in the drawing page, and click.

• Click and drag on the drawing page to define the size of the text frame.

• Press the Spacebar to place the imported text in the default location.

For more information about importing a specific file format, see Supported file formats.

To paste text in a document

1 Copy or cut text.

2 Click Edit

Paste.

3 In the Importing/Pasting Text dialog box, choose one of the following options:

• Maintain Fonts and Formatting

• Maintain Formatting Only

• Discard Fonts and Formatting

If you want to apply CMYK black to the imported black text, enable the Force CMYK black check box. This check box is available when you choose an option that maintains text formatting.

If you choose to maintain fonts, but the text that you import requires a font that is not installed on your computer, the PANOSE font matching system substitutes the font for you. For more information, see Substitute fonts.

You can also set hyphenation options for imported text. For more information about hyphenation options, see Hyphenate text.

If you want to use the same formatting options whenever you import or paste text, enable the Don’t show this warning again check box. To reactivate the warning, click Tools Options CorelDRAW, click Warnings in the left pane of the dialog box that appears, and enable the Pasting and importing text check box.