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Repelling text objects

You can make any object in Xara Designer Pro X repel text so that text underneath it
automatically flows around the object, instead of appearing underneath it. This makes it
easy to lay out pages containing long passages of text combined with photos and
graphics. Once you've set them to repel, you can adjust the positions of your graphics
and photos and the text will automatically adjust and reflow around them.

You can also choose to only repel text within a layer, which stops objects within a layer
from repelling text on other layers and also stops text on the layer being repelled by
objects on higher layers.

Making an object repel

To make an object repel text, right click it and select the REPEL TEXT UNDER option. Any
text object in the same layer but below the repelling object (look in the Page and Layer
Gallery (on page 181)) will be repelled with a default margin of 5 pixels between the text
and object. Note that repelling text objects only repel text that is underneath the objects,
not any text that is on top.