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To add some text to your website, select the TEXT TOOL and click anywhere on
the page and start typing.

You can also create text columns, by clicking and dragging horizontally in the TEXT TOOL,
or text areas by dragging diagonally. See the Text section in the pdf manual for more
details and the Chapter Text Handling (on page 196) for a complete reference of text
functions of Xara Web Designer Premium.

You can use the drawing tools to create rectangles, rounded
rectangles, circles and ellipses, and just about any shape you like using
the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL. See the Drawing tools section in the pdf
manual for more detail.

Stacking Order
All objects on the page are placed one on top of another. The most recently drawn or
created object is always on top, that is, in front of any others. You can adjust the stacking
position by right clicking and choosing ARRANGE or using the ARRANGE menu options.

For example, when you draw a new rectangle it always appears to cover all the objects
behind it. By right clicking and choosing ARRANGE or pressing "Ctrl + B" (or the menu
"ARRANGE" > "PUT TO BACK") the object is moved behind everything else. Similarly "Ctrl +
F" brings any selected object to the top, that is, in front of everything else.

These objects are stacked over each other.

All objects are collected into named layers, and each layer can be turned on or off to
show or hide everything on that layer.

The Selector Tool

This tool is a general purpose tool that allows you to select, move, resize, crop
and rotate all objects on your web page.
You can do all these things by just dragging on the objects on the page, or on the
selection handles around the object, or you can enter precise numeric values. The