•Text placement — the side of the path on which the text is fitted

•Horizontal offset — the horizontal position of the text along the path

You can also change the horizontal position of fitted text by selecting it with the Shape tool and dragging the character nodes you want to reposition.

Using the Pick tool, you can move text along the path by dragging the small red node that displays beside the text.

To separate text from a path

1Select the fitted text using the Pick tool .

2Click Arrange ` Break text apart.

To straighten text

1Select the fitted text using the Pick tool .

2Click Arrange ` Break text apart.

3Click Text ` Straighten text.

Formatting paragraph text

CorelDRAW offers various formatting options for paragraph text. For example, you can fit text to a paragraph text frame. Fitting text to a frame increases or decreases the point size of text so that it fits the text frame exactly. You can also use columns to lay out textintensive projects such as newsletters, magazines, and newspapers. You can create columns of equal or varying widths and gutters.

Applying drop caps to paragraphs enlarges the initial letter and insets it into the body of text. You can customize a drop cap by changing its settings. For example, you can change the distance between the drop cap and the body of text, or specify the number of lines of text you want to appear beside the drop cap. You can remove the drop cap at any point, without deleting the letter.

You can use bulleted lists to format information. You can have text wrap around bullets, or you can offset a bullet from text to create a hanging indent. CorelDRAW lets you customize bullets by changing their size, position, and distance from text. After you add a bullet, you can remove it without deleting the text.

You can add tabs to indent paragraph text. You can also remove tabs and change tab alignment. Setting trailing leader tabs automatically creates dots that precede the tab.

Indenting changes the space between a paragraph text frame and the text that it contains. You can indent an entire paragraph, the first line of a paragraph, all but the first line of a paragraph (a hanging indent), or from the right side of the frame. You can also remove an indent without deleting or retyping text.

Hyphenating splits words between lines when the whole word does not fit on one line. You can have CorelDRAW hyphenate automatically. You can specify hyphenation settings such as the minimum number of letters before and after a hyphen, and the hot zone.

Paragraph text frame formatting can be applied to selected frames only, selected frames and frames they are currently linked to, or to all selected and subsequently linked frames. For information about setting these options, see “To choose paragraph text frame formatting options” in the Help.

To fit text to a paragraph text frame

1Select a paragraph text frame.

2Click Text ` Fit text to frame.

If you fit text to linked paragraph text frames, the application adjusts the size of text in all of the linked text frames. For more information about linking frames, see “Combining and linking paragraph text frames” on page 228.

To add columns to paragraph text frames

1Select a paragraph text frame.

2Click Text ` Format text.

3Click the Columns tab.

4Type a value in the Number of columns box.

5Specify the settings and options you want.

You can change the size of columns and gutters by dragging a side selection handle in the drawing window with the Text tool .