Finding, editing, and converting text
You can find text in a drawing and replace it automatically. You can also find special characters, such as an em dash or optional hyphen. You can edit text directly in the drawing window or in a dialog box.
CorelDRAW lets you convert artistic text to paragraph text if you require more formatting options, and paragraph text to artistic text if you’d like to apply special effects.
You can also convert both paragraph and artistic text to curves. This transforms characters into single line and curve objects, letting you add, delete, or move the nodes of individual characters to alter their shape. For more information, see “Using curve objects.” When you convert text to curves, the appearance of the text is preserved, including font, style, character position and rotation, spacing, and any other text settings and effects. Any linked text objects are also converted to curves. If you convert paragraph text in a fixed-sized frame to curves, any text that overflows the frame is deleted. For information about fitting text to a frame, see “Formatting paragraph text.”
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Find and replace 
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You can also find special characters by clicking the right arrowhead next to the Find box, choosing a special character, and clicking Find next.
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To find and replace text | |
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Replace — replaces the selected occurrence of the text specified in the Find what box. If no occurrence is selected, Replace finds the next occurrence.
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You can also edit text in the drawing window by selecting the text with the Text tool and then editing the text.
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You cannot convert paragraph text to artistic text when the paragraph text is linked to another frame, has special effects applied to it, or overflows its frame.
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You can also use the Pick tool to convert text to curves. Right-click the text, and click Convert to curves.
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