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Importing & pasting NavBars
If you import or paste a NavBar into your document, the site navigation option on that
NavBar is turned off automatically, if it was on. This is to avoid any conflicts with any
existing site navigation bar in your document.

However if the incoming bar is of the same theme and type as the existing site navigation
bar in your site (ie., are part of the same repeating group), it will immediately be updated
to match that existing site navigation bar. Hence in this case the bar will not appear on
your page in its original form.

If the bar is of a different theme or type (ie., are not part of the same repeating group), it
will appear unmodified.

Creating your own Navigation Bars
You can create a NavBar from any button design. The ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG
contains many different button designs, or you can draw your own. See the „Creating
your own Mouseover Buttons (on page 457)" section of the Getting Started chapter for
information on how to do this.The button may or may not include a mouseover state.

To create a NavBar, select the button and then select "ARRANGE" > "CREATE NAVIGATION
BAR". The NAVIGATION BAR DIALOG appears and you can immediately add more buttons to
your bar, just as for other NavBars.

You can also create NavBars with more than one button design (so you can have
different designs for the first and/or last button in the bar). See the section below, which
describes how to do that.

Button design restrictions
There are some rules you must follow when creating your own buttons for use in
NavBars.

Stretchy button limitations

In order to get reliable results when your buttons are automatically stretched you are
advised to make sure that there are no path control points or graduated fill/transparency
control points in the horizontal area occupied by the button label text object.

Text in a button
Each state of the button design must be a group object containing a text object that can
serve as the button label. This text object should be a simple text object, not a text
column or text area. That is, it should be created in the TEXT TOOL by clicking on the page
and typing, not by first dragging a text line or text box.

Your button design cannot consist of text alone. It must include at least one shape in
order to be used in a NavBar.
Soft grouping button states