Once again, Corel has updated my software and made serious changes without me knowing (or agreeing to it) and all these changes have me annoyed as hell!
My colour palette is gone...from a double palette, with an additional custom palette attached, to the default single row palette. Why?
I managed to get that fixed, along with a few other things, but its taken me forever to get things the way I like...and then you make changes without my understanding. I get that some software updates might mess with certain settings, but this is unfair.
I see the left side tool bar has changed...and I don't know how to change it back!
There are a few new tool icons there...things that I don't use regularly (so i don't need them there)...and it has completely disrupted my work flow because things that I am used to are not in the same places any more!!!
How can I remove tool icons? or move them down to the bottom of the list (out of the way)?
Also, I don't use the bezier tool...I use the Freehand tool every day, all day. And yet...now...the Bezier tool is the default...everytime I go for my freehand draw tool, I have to click off the Bezier tool to find it.
WHY??!! Why have you changed this Corel?...without asking me? How do I make the Freehand tool the default?
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One problem is that CorelDRAW is keeping track of so many things in the workspace that it changes all... the... time.
I really like my customized workspace in 2018, and I really, really don't want to ever rebuild it from scratch for 2018. I would start over from scratch if customizing for a new version.As insurance, I fairly often run a FreeFileSync job that maintains a mirror of the folder containing my .CDWS files. Any time that a file is updated in or deleted from the mirror, the previous version is saved in a separate folder with a time stamp appended to the filename.If something bad were to happen to a workspace, I would just turn back time to get to a good one.
Just as Eskimo says, it is a good idea to make backup copies of your workspace.CorelDRAW can be customized in detail and having to recreate a heavily customized workspace is not something we want to do unless it is absolutely necessary (which in my case means; when a new version is installed *).Eskimo's screenshot shows where you can create and save your workspace (New... which will make your workspace appear in the list) and also Export all workspace settings, in case you need to reinstall for example.* It is possible to Export - Import workspaces between versions but I do not recommend it.Since new features are added or changed, there is always a risk that there will be conflicts between your old workspace and the new version, which means that some things simply won't work, or items may be missing from a toolbar for example.