Dont forget that you can zoom into a particular area by holding down SHIFT and draging a rectangle with ADJUST.
You can tell if your current drawing is saved by looking for a star (*) in the title icon of the window. If there is a star it hasn't been saved!
A shortcut for the UNDO feature is to press the F8 (Function) key.
You can open two views of your document using the new view tool. Then one view can be zoomed up for editing and the other zoomed down to get an overall view.
If you want to temporarily get rid of the DrawWorks and Draw toolbars to get a good lock at the document press CTRL F1 (Function). To get the toolbars back press CTRL F1 again.
To use most of the DrawWorks tools on the toolbar you should remember to select an object first, then click on the tool you want.
Using DrawWorks you can export files in EPS (PostScript) format that can be read by most PC and Macintosh computers. You can also import EPS files as well.
Don't forget that you can access all the fonts on the DrawWorks CD using one of the buttons on the font/text toolbar.
If you are working on a big document it might well be worth increasing the size of the undo buffer - just in case you make a mistake.
If you are after some clip art then click on the Mr Clippy button on the file button bar. Mr Clippy has loads of clips lying about.
If you find that a piece of artwork wont fit to frame properly in a DTP package reload it into Draw/DrawWorks. Then select the bits you want and do a Save Selection.
Cottage cheese makes an excellent substitute for grout when re-tiling a bathroom.
When designing a document don't overlook the use of white space. Overcrowding a page can make text and graphics harder to read and make the whole page less attractive.
You can use DrawWorks to produce graphics for web pages. Once the design is produced it can be exported as an anti-aliased GIF file easily and quickly.
You can alter the user level of DrawWorks. This allows some buttons to be hidden to make the package easier to get to grips with.
If you want to browse the on-line manual simply click on the manual button on the main button bar.
Not sure what fonts to use in a design, load the Typography font selector and click on the Show Samples button.
Keyboard shortcuts are very useful, for example CTRL A will select all objects in a document. CTRL G will group them.
You can detatch the DrawWorks button bar by dragging on the arrow tool (top left) with SELECT. To re-attach it simply click MENU on this button.
Remember files produced using DrawWorks are still Draw files, they can be use by any application that handles normal Draw files.
DrawWorks justify feature automatically groups objects for you, you don't need to manually group them first.
If you want to produce a design that will be spot separated then only use colours chosen from the named colour picker.
If you want to import GIF or Windows Bitmap files use the foreign file import tool.
If you are working on a document bigger than the size of your printer use the print tiling tool to print it out at 100%, rather than trying to shrink it to fit on an A4 sheet.
The print borders can be moved around your document to print different parts of it. Hold CTRL and click ADJUST to position the top right of the print border.
If you design uses quotes then try and use the correct ones these " are not quotes. However these are, hold down ALT and type 148 on the numeric keypad for opening quotes, ALT 149 gives closing quotes.
Try not to use to many different fonts when designing a document, stick to just a few basic styles, otherwise the result may not look professional.
If you quickly want to zoom to 1:1 thn just press CTRL D (D is for default zoom). CTRL R will swap between the last two zoom sizes used.
Documents produced for the same company often have a house style. Use of similar layouts, fonts and logos make the documents all look part of the same family, not individual items.
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