CorelDRAW Help | Application window

Application window

When you launch CorelDRAW, the application window opens containing a drawing window. Although more than one drawing window can be opened, you can apply commands to the active drawing window only.

The CorelDRAW application window appears below.

Circled numbers correspond to the numbers in the following table, which describes the main components of the application window.


Part	Description
1. Toolbox	A docked bar with tools for creating, filling, and modifying objects in the drawing
2. Document tab	A tab displays for each open document to allow you to quickly move between documents
3. Title bar	The area displaying the title of the currently selected drawing
4. Menu bar	The area containing pull-down menu options
5. Toolbar	A detachable bar that contains shortcuts to menu and other commands
6. Update text toolbar	A temporary toolbar that allows you to update documents created in CorelDRAW X5 (or earlier) in order to edit the text
7. Drawing window	The area outside the drawing page bordered by the scroll bars and application controls
8. Property bar	A detachable bar with commands that relate to the active tool or object. For example, when the text tool is active, the text property bar displays commands that create and edit text.
9. Docker	A window containing available commands and settings relevant to a specific tool or task
10. Rulers	Horizontal and vertical borders that are used to determine the size and position of objects in a drawing
11. Document palette	A dockable bar that contains color swatches for the current document
12. Document navigator	The area at the bottom left of the application window that contains controls for moving between pages and adding pages
13. Drawing page	The rectangular area inside the drawing window. It is the printable area of your work area.
14. Status bar	An area at the bottom of the application window that contains information about object properties such as type, size, color, fill, and resolution. The status bar also shows the current cursor position.
15. Navigator	A button at the lower-right corner that opens a smaller display to help you move around a drawing
16. Color palette	A dockable bar that contains color swatches

To toggle between displaying and hiding the status bar, click Window Toolbars Status bar.

To toggle between displaying and hiding the rulers, see To hide or display the rulers.

To adjust the contrast of the application workspace, click Tools Customization, and in the Appearance area, choose a setting from the Contrast list box.

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