Grouping frames

When frames are grouped together, they act as one object. This can be useful if you want to move more than one frame at a time.

  1. Select the candle.

  2. Drag-and-drop the candle on top of, and slightly to the right of, the parchment, as shown below:

  1. Select the hat.

  2. Drag-and-drop the hat on top of, and slightly below, the parchment and candle, as shown below:

  1. Making sure the hat is still selected, hold down CTRL on your keyboard.

  2. Select the parchment and the candle.

  3. Release CTRL. All three frames are now selected.

  4. From the Frame menu, select Group. The frame handles change to indicate the frames are now grouped.

  1. Drag-and-drop the grouped frames over the right side of the photo, as shown below.

Click away from the page to deselect any frames.

Your finished flier should look like the picture below:

This tutorial has explained how to use PowerText and how to work with background textures, fades and picture colour. The next tutorial explains how to use document restyling and mail merge.

To save your document, select Save As from the File menu and refer to the section ‘Saving your document’ in the chapter entitled ‘Saving and Printing’ in the manual.