Xara Webster Movies - Text

Selecting Text (32 seconds)
AVI Format (90K) EXE Format (80K)
This movie shows three ways of selecting text. Firstly dragging the text cursor over the text selects "ere is a". Then double-clicking on text selects the complete word. Lastly SHIFT+the keyboard arrows keys let you adjust the amount of text selected.

Changing Font (32 seconds)
AVI Format (370K) EXE Format (140K)
This movie shows changing the font (typeface) using the drop-down list in the Text Tool.

Changing Font Size (16 seconds)
AVI Format (110K) EXE Format (75K)
This movie shows changing the size of text using the font size drop-down list in the Text Tool. You can also scale text using the Selector Tool - scaling objects is shown in the scaling.exe movie.

Justifying Text (16 seconds)
AVI Format (105K) EXE Format (80K)
This movie shows left justification, center justification and right justification. Full justification is not shown in this movie - it is used only with paragraph text in imported CorelXARA drawings. The movie shows a vertical red line so you can see the effect of selecting each option.

Bold & Italic (30 seconds)
AVI Format (25K) EXE Format (70K)
This shows using the Bold and Italic buttons in the Text Tool to apply and then remove bold and italic effects. The end of the movie shows that you can apply both effects to produce bold, italicized text.

Changing Line Spacing (26 seconds)
AVI Format (260K) EXE Format (105K)
This movie shows the effect of changing the line spacing of the middle line. ("This is paragraph 2.") Positive values move the following line down. Negative values move the second line up. You can change value by either clicking the up/down arrows or typing into the text box - both methods are shown in the movie.

Changing Baseline Shift (18 seconds)
AVI Format (65K) EXE Format (70K)
This movie shows using the Baseline shift option in the Text Tool to move a selected text region by clicking on the bump arrows and the typing into the text box. The text is firstly moved above the other text then below it.

Creating Subscript and Superscript (13 seconds)
AVI Format (105K) EXE Format (85K)
Xara Webster does not have subscript or superscript. However, this movie shows you how to create script for the equation E=mc².

  1. select the 2
  2. make it smaller (from 36pt to 18pt - half size)
  3. apply a baseline shift of 15pt
At the end of the movie, the mouse is clicked at the start of the text so you can see the final result. The Text Tool in CorelXARA includes buttons to quickly select subscript and superscript.

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