8    Exploring Special Shapes, Connectors, and Other Office Automation Helpers

Not everyone is a born artist. But try telling this to your boss, who has elevated you from the company’s nominally talented artist to the resident Art Director. You’ve shown a little design flair, helped out stapling a flyer or two, and, right or wrong, your boss’s presumption now is that you’re a digital da Vinci.

This chapter is the Corel version of a Non-Artists’ Rescue Kit. As you unpack and read through this chapter, you will gain experience with the features most sought by your business—tables, clean and crisp dimensioning callouts for tech work, banners, and perfect polygons—even though you think that vector is the kid’s name down in the mailroom.

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