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Created by Bill Marvin
Created on Dec 20, 2022

On ALL Corel products, Tell How to get to the dialog screen from scratch

The vast majority of your Helps screens START by say something like: "in/on the xyz dialog box" select ...


Usually, my problem is that I know the function exist, but I don't know HOW TO GET TO THE DIALOG SCREEN I NEED. You need to start every help page as if the user is at the outermost level of the Application with no special toolbar shown, like the user just installed the Corel product and started it for the first time.


Also, usually your search within Help, cannot find the feature I am looking for. Then I just have to hunt and peck from your Table of Contents, wasting a lot of my time! For example, searching for "duplicate distance" in your search returns NOTHING. I know from using CorelDraw Graphics suite since version 3.1 (1980s timeframe) that ctrl-D will duplicate an object. But I rarely have setup the relative distance from the current object that the duplicate should be created.

I am not a professional graphic artist. I have used CorelDraw Graphics Suite for years as a casual user. I have barely scratched the surface of what this software is capable of doing. Trying to find help on something I use to use and have forgotten how to implement it is extremely frustrating. Often, once I get to the dialog screen, it is self-explanatory. I just don't know how to GET TO THE DIALOG WINDOW.


This is not just a problem with CorelDraw Help, but with all Corel Products Help that I have used. (PhotoPaint, Trace, Painter, and many others).


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