Hey Corel Draw Viewers, you are welcome in next one of the informative CorelDraw tutorial. In last tutorial, we talked about “How to Create CorelDraw 2017 New Document”. So, today we’ll change our topic about File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017.

I hope, you learnt something special about previous discussion thus came here to learn more. So, our today’s topic is File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017. We’ll try to discuss it’s almost all options with extremely simple style you expect for.

In File Menu of CorelDraw, bundles of options are placed with their name and shortcut keys. Moreover, sub options are also there which increase the functionality of the main options too much. So, you are ready to learn about something special about this menu ahead so keep on reading.  

File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017

Therefore, the File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017 is very important menu which has many features you can apply on your project. I think, without these features, you can’t complete your project and you still failed to take your project to the next level. 

“File” is important one menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite where you start working on your project. New, Open, Close, Save, Import, Export, Send to, Print, Publish and Exit are its main options. We’ll talk about all of them and learn what their importance in CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017.

Now, it is time to learn about which features File Menu of CorelDraw has. So, let’s know about them ahead one by one.

New

“New” is first option of File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017 that is used to take New Document. When you push this option or press Ctrl+N from the keyboard, you get a new Document Setting panel.

New from Template

By default, in CorelDraw Graphics Suite many readymade templates are added. You can use them anytime according to your requirements. So, to get any of templates you should use “New from Template” option. After pressing, you’ll see a big collection of templates appear before you in different of categories. So, you can choose your one of required templet simply.

Open

First, we take a new Document by ‘New’ option besides if we’ve a CorelDraw file project and want to upload in CorelDraw window, we use “Open” option. This option takes you till your PC’s hard drive where you can open other CorelDraw project which is in CDR file format.

Open Recent

If you’re CorelDraw designer, I think you’ve many CorelDraw file you worked on them recently. You can open your required one recent CorelDraw file project from File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017using the “Open Recent” option easily.

Close

By “Close” option you close the opened window only. Remember, this option is to close CorelDraw window but not to close CorelDraw software. To close CorelDraw program, you can use Exit option from the same File Menu of CorelDraw.

Close All

If you’ve more than one window opened and want to close all of them, you can use “Close All” option that is simplest way to close the number of opened document windows.

Save

You finished task in CorelDraw softwarenow you should save it. A “Save” feature is placed in File Menu of CorelDraw to saving the project. When you click on it, a window box opens where you’ve to type your current project name and according to your requirement you can choose any file format or simply save in CorelDraw file format CDR for this project.

Save As

“Save As” command is very important placed in File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017. Sometimes, you need to save the current working project into other one format or name. On this time, you can use SaveAs option to do this.

Save as Template

About saving document in CorelDraw programyou can use many option in them “Save as Template” is also valuable to save the document as a template. For quick and efficient designing, if you want to reuse specific design elements from one of your documents, save it as a template.

When you save a template, CorelDraw Graphics Suite let you add reference information such as Pagination, Category, Industry, and other Notes. This way, it makes it easy to organize and search templates later. To save a document as a template click File>Save as Template simply.

Type a name in the File Name box, and locate the folder where you want to save the template. Click Save in the Template properties dialog box, add any reference information you want.

Revert

You can take your document on its initial stage by suing the “Revert” feature. In this way, you get back all applied changing in the project as it was in initial stage.

Acquire Image

If you’ve images stored on a digital camera, or images that you want to scan for a particular job, you may find it convenient to acquire the images directly in CorelDraw – especially if these images are to be used just one time. By acquiring the image, CorelDraw will embed it with the file so that you need not to save a separate image file. This will save both time and hard disk space so simply connect the camera or scanner to your computer, and then go to File>Acquire Image.  

Document Properties Dialog Box

Clicking File>Document Properties will display all details about the active document, which can help you to understand potential issues. The Document Properties Dialog Box displays such information as Color Models, a count of objects used in the file, summary of Bitmap images and their respective Color Model (RGB, CMYK etc.), as well Fonts used and much more.

Import

“Import” feature is used to upload a project file into CorelDraw software. By this option, you can upload many formats of the project into CorelDraw like as CDR, AL, PDF, DXF, CPT, JPG, GIF, PSDand PNGetc.

Export

After Import option, the other one of important is “Export” option that is used to download a project file into your PC’s hard drive. As with the Import option you can upload the project file into several of formats, with the same way you can save your project into many formats. When you click on this option, a panel opens that demand by the graphic designer to type the name of current project and then choose file format also.

Export For

It is other one option to export document available in File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite. You can export your CorelDraw document for more than one ways as you can export it as a Microsoft Office, for Web and HTML you also can use the same option.

Send To

Whenever you’re working in CorelDraw program you need to send this CorelDraw project to your client or friends. So, to get this purpose you can send this project to them. “Send To” option gives some different way to send this project as,

Compressed (zip) Folder: To send the document as a Zip Folder where the original file saved.

Desktop Shortcut: To send on Desktop as a Shortcut Document.

Document & Fax Recipient: To send as a Document and to Fax Recipient.

Publish to PDF

PDF format is static graphic so special software is needed to run this format. If you’ve to save your CorelDraw graphics as a PDF, you should use “Publish to PDF” option that saves your entire document in the shape of a book. To open PDF format special software should be there as of PDF Reader or about all major browsers have a capability to open PDF format.

Print

CorelDraw programis one of the best software using in Printing field especially. After you finished CorelDraw graphics sometimes a need is occurred to take its solid paper copy. So, in CorelDraw software, an option is placed about Print. By using it, you can take your CorelDraw project’s print out on a solid material.

When you go to File Menu of CorelDraw Graphics Suite, there an option is about “Print”. When you click on this option, a window opens related to Printer Setting. So, after setting of print device, you can take your project’s solid paper copy.

Print Merge

You can use Print Merge feature to combine more than one pieces of text along with CorelDraw graphics.

Print Preview

If you’re designing in CorelDraw project for printing, during working you can see its “Print Preview” that how your current designing print when it will be print out. So, it is better option related to see print before taking solid copy.

Document Properties

It is an option that tells you all information about current CorelDraw document like as File, Document, Text Statistics, Bitmap, Style, Effect, Fill and Outline etc.

Exit

“Exit” option is used to Close CorelDraw program entirely. After you press this option, you’re asked whether to save changes in the current project or not in case you made any changing in it.

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