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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
or even multiple layers, and these need not be the current layer. The current layer, with
the arrow, only indicates where new items will be placed.

This example PAGE & LAYER GALLERY shows the current layer is called MouseOff (the current
page is called news). So if you draw anything new it will be placed on the MouseOff layer.
It also shows a shadow group item selected in the document (highlighted in blue) inside