Setting custom icons to launch macros

Written by Jeff Harrison
October 8, 2011

Many of you know about the power of macros, combined with CorelDRAW.

Assigning custom icons are a much faster way to launch them. That’s why we almost always include them with our products.

Here’s a quick video showing how I do it.

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  1. Alex Salamanca

    Hey there, I've been using the Curve Length macro for a bit now.. really helpful. But I was wondering it was possible for it to take into account the current scale of the drawing/page. Right now it only calculates the length at a 1:1 scale so I have to do further conversions to get the correct length.

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Jeff Harrison is a media "Jack-of-all-trades", familiar with most of the major media applications on the Windows platform. Whether it's 2D/print, 3D, audio, video, or web-related - he's working on mastering everything that comes his way. He's a past Alpha and Beta tester for Corel, and has instructed students from all over the world. He runs the popular MacroMonster.com site, the #1 place for CorelDRAW macros. Also check out his youtube page, and his gallery at coreldraw.com.

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