hahahahaha

thanks for the education, soquili, i tried using the cusp nodes and they work great
i would like to make that the default
i would also like to make default the units and grids settings that all the tutorials tell you to use
but i don't know how to make anything a default
and i'm not all that comfortable going into the registry - i have in the past - and all worked out fine - for other programs
but this is Xara - my new MOST EXCELLENT BELOVED program and i don't want to mess it up
is there anyway within Xara itself to make those things the default???