I use the Symbol Library like I breath oxygen. I have hundreds of everyday symbols. I use symbols on my office PC and my home PC. Now usually there isn't a problem but for some reason my home PC will no longer load any symbols in the symbols docker. I don't know what happened. It shows the folder I selected by nothing underneath.
Just a word of warning re symbols. I'm still using 2018 but I'm guessing this is a long standing bug. If you have a csl file as a Network resource and you have a document with symbols from that file (Corel call it a library) , if you then edit the library file the changes do not percolate through to the existing symbols. Indeed its worse than that, if you have an instance of a symbol on a page and that symbol in the library has been edited deliberately, when you drag an instance of the new symbol from the docker, the newly edited symbol will match the symbol already on the page. You have to delete the library and reload it.
I lost hours investigating this.
Oh and why if a symbol has been scaled and you want to revert it to the original stored in the library, is Update From Link always greyed out!.
I need to see this happen. I did a test where I created a blue square symbol and created a network library. Made a document. Imported the symbol then saved it. I restarted Coreldraw, updated the symbol library to a red square and opened the corel document I created and selected the symbol, chose "update" and the square changed from blue to red. It appears to me that it worked as intended.
Symbols have been reworked in 2021.5 and newer but test to make sure you get what you need.
Most symbols need to be resaved That's a project in itself.
That doesn't surprise me, as the changes that were done. I believe cloning got a rework too.
I'll be honest. I never new what the clone tool did. I'm wondering if I ever could have used this.
There are some tutorials and maybe a webinar available I believe on the Corel site.
I saw a webinar on the facing pages feature where the clone was used and it worked really well. I'd do some research.