Setup Lesson – Customer Supplied Word Doc

Here is the original Word doc I got from my customer whom got it from there customer. The text is not formatted properly to be able to use the print merge in CorelDraw. So I am going to use cut and paste and create individual plates.

Select the first text for the plate in Word by dragging and selecting the text.

With the text selected go to EDIT (1) | PASTE (2)

Our text is being held in the Windows Clipboard so we can do other things. Let us first create the new plate in CorelDraw which is 3.5 (1) by 2 (2).

To be able to paste the text in we need to activate the text tool. Click on the " A" icon (1) and your cursor will turn into a insert cusor. To start text you will need to click on your page with the text tool activated.

Now go to EDIT (1) and Paste (2).

CorelDraw will ask you if you want to want to keep or discard the fonts or formatting. Seeing we need to keep the formatting and the font I will say yes

Our four lines of text are now in CorelDraw

Because my text needs to go into the center of the text Select the text and than press the "P" command on your keyboard. This is a hot key and centers my text within my page.

Drag the original text off your page and unto the desktop and right click. This will create a Duplicate of our original text. It is off our page so it does not interfere with the first page. What I am going to do is to use this second text as the text I will paste into to.

Create a new page (1). We will automatically be taken to page 2.The new page will have no text on the page but there will be text below the page.

If we look in our object manager you will see that we now have two pages in CorelDraw.

Select your text that is off the page.

We need to create a duplicate copy of the text that is off the page. Make sure that the text is selected. Press the "+" key on keyboard (1). The "+" key creates a duplicate copy right on top of the original text.

The text that was duplicated needs to be centered into the page. Press the "P" key (1). This will center the text on the page.

Now the hot key to edit text is ctrl shift and T (1, 2, 3). Hold the ctrl and the shift and than the "T". This opens the text edit box.

If you do not want to use the hot keys you can go to TEXT (1) EDIT TEXT (2)

Our text window is open. Now we need to go back to work and get the second line of text.

In word as we did earlier select the second line of text (1) and than go to EDIT (2) and COPY (3)

Swipe your text in CorelDraw so that the text is gray (1)

Right click on the text and select Paste (1).

In this case keep Maintain Fonts and Formatting (1). Than click OK (2).

Our text has changed to the copied text from word. Now repeat the steps where you create a new plate, create duplicate text that is on the desktop, create a new page, press P to center the text open up the text input window in CorelDraw, go to word copy the next plate’s text, go back to Corel and paste in the text.

Here is a shot of some of the plates.: Note to print the plates as one job use the imposition command.