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Using layers you can group a collection of items together and then turn the whole
collection on or off (make it visible or hidden) in one easy operation. Layers can be made
invisible, to hide parts of your document. You can give layers names, and you can easily
create new layers or delete them. And you can open a layer and view its contents.

When you select any object, the layer it's on is shown on the status line at the bottom of
the window.

The Current Layer
When you create any new object on the page, it's placed in one of the layers, called the
active layer or simply the current layer. On a blank document this will either just be called
Layer 1 or, in the case of web documents, it's called MouseOff. The current layer is
shown with a selection arrow .

Important: All new drawn items, shapes, photos, text, and all pasted items, are placed on
the current layer marked with the symbol.

You can change the current layer simply by clicking on its row in the PAGE & LAYER
GALLERY. It's important to understand that you can have a selected object on any layer