Xara web designer

Xara Web Designer Community Guide

Compiled By Nickydude - 07/04/2009

A special thanks to all those people who’ve answered the many questions on the Forum, raised about XWD, without those kind souls there would be no guide. 

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ....................................................................................................................... 5 Q: WhenI move the text box the text is resizing. How do I just resize the text box without resizing the font? ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Q: How Can I select all the text in a textbox?.................................................................................... 5 Q: I've noticedthat changing a graphic's width (that's the width of the page) changes the X position slightly. E.g a rectangle 760px wide at 0 x-pos, when changed to 758px by the toolbar at the top, changes the X position from 0 to 1. Is it supposed to do this? ............................................ 5 Q: How do I rename the pages?........................................................................................................ 5 Q: How do I centre text on buttons without ungrouping them? ...................................................... 5 Q: How do I create a new page at a certain width? .......................................................................... 5 Q: I've accidentally filled the page background with a marble fill and I can't return it back to white. I've doneother things in the meantime (as I didn't know the page was filled and are hidden on layers) so 'undoing' is not really an option........................................................................................ 6 Q: How do I lock a layer from being edited? ..................................................................................... 6 Q: Can I lock certain objects on a layer............................................................................................. 6 Q: In the Window menu there are the keyboard shortcuts Num decimal & nummult for snapping to the grid and snapping to an object. Where on the keyboard are these?...................................... 6 Q: Can I rename the folders in the Design Gallery?.......................................................................... 6 Q: When exporting my site, it seems that part of the text flowing around an image becomes part of that image. How can I stop that? .................................................................................................. 6 Q: Can I add inline frames?............................................................................................................... 7 Q: I've clicked the Shape Tool and get red dotted lined rectangles / circles / text. The problem is that I can't get back to normal. How do I get back to normal shapes and text? ............................... 7 Q: How do I convert something to an editable shape? ..................................................................... 7 Q: How do I change the size of the subscript /superscript text? ...................................................... 8 Q: How do I place a Menu Maker nav bar in WD? ............................................................................ 8 Q: Is it possible to have text flow around a transparent shape? ....................................................... 8 Q: I’ve pasted a Xara document as a Xara Xtreme document but I’m getting aviolation error, what’s happening? ............................................................................................................................ 9 Q: I have a placeholder on a page that display's a YouTube Video. I'd like it so that there are a number of links on the page and clicking each one loads a different YouTube video into the placeholder already there. Is that possible?...