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3 To move an object to the very top or bottom of the stack, choose Arrange > “Bring to

Front” or Arrange > “Send to Back.”

If you’re unable to select an object, it may be a background object. For more

information about working with background objects, see “Moving an Object to the

Background” on page 160.

If you frequently layer objects, you can add the Front, Back, Forward, and Backward

buttons to the toolbar to work more eciently. To learn about customizing the toolbar,

see “The Toolbar” on page 21.

Moving an Object to the Background

In your word processing document, you can send an object to the background to have

it automatically become nonselectable. This enables you to move other objects and

select text without aecting the object in the background.

Here are ways to work with background objects:

To make an object a background object, select the object, and then choose Arrange > m

“Send Object to Background” or select “In background” in the Wrap inspector.

To reposition or edit a background object, choose Arrange > Make Background m

Objects Selectable or select the “Background objects are selectable” checkbox in the

Wrap inspector, select the object, and then reposition or edit the object.

To move an object from the background to the foreground of the page, choose m

Arrange > Make Background Objects Selectable, select the background object, and

then choose Arrange > “Bring Background Objects to Front.” Now you can move the

object forward or backward as “Moving an Object Forward or Backward (Layering

Objects)” on page 15 9 describes.

To determine whether an object is a background object, choose Arrange > Make m

Background Objects Selectable, and then move the pointer over the object. If the

pointer becomes a white arrow, the object is a background object. When you

move the pointer over an object that’s not a background object, it becomes a black

arrow instead.

Quickly Aligning Objects Relative to One Another

You can use menu commands to quickly move objects on the same page into

alignment or space them equally apart. First, you must select all the objects you want

to align (hold down the Shift or Command key as you click each object to select it).

To align selected objects:

To align the objects with each other, choose Arrange > Align Objects and then choose m

one of the alignment options in the submenu.

Left: Positions objects so that their left edges align vertically to the rst object

you select.

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