Thank you for your good wishes, Kurt.   I had only known about the Hundstage, but it seems that the other two might bring Schnee Stille rather than Katzenjammer, or much worse, Gebell von Hunden.   ... View more

cl,   As I (mis)understand it, you have a first object at some (maybe unknown) place in the stacking order (Stapelreihenfolge) and you wish to place it immediately above or beneath a second object  at another (maybe unknown) place in the stacking order (Stapelreihenfolge).   In that case you can with no need to know the places in the stacking order (Stapelreihenfolge), and using the (normal) Selection Tool:   1) Select the first object (just click it) and use Ctrl/Cmd+X (hold Ctrl or Cmd and pres X) to cut it from its place in the stacking order; 2) Select the second object (just click it) and: 2A) Use Ctrl/Cmd+F to place the first object immediately above the second object in the stacking order, or 2B) Use Ctrl/Cmd+B to place the first object immediately beneath the second object in the stacking order.   To make sure that it works when doing it for the first time, you can select both objects and then scroll through the stacking order (Stapelreihenfolge) until you find them and see that they are together in the right order.     I believe this is what Monika meant with the answer in the first post (corresponding to 2B):   "Naja, dann wählst Du das Objekt davor aus und fügst dahinter ein."   ... View more

Garbageware,   In addition to what Monika said, you can make the solution more flexible/versatile by setting the Opacity of the New Stroke beneath the text to 0% in the Transparency palette, then select both the Mixer and the rest and Ctrl+G to Group them, then also in the Transparency palette tick the Knockout Group box so that/until the tick mark is full and the New Stroke knocks out, in other words hides, the text parts beneath it so the background colour shows through.   With this, you can freely change the background colour and still have the knockout instead of your having to change the stroke colour to match the new one (each time).   ... View more

Danny,   Sigmoid curves is a term covering fundamentally different shapes with a rotational symmetry with an upper right and lower left part on either side of an origin, the one in your lower screenshot being just one (logistic).   The curved in the desired shape in the upper left screenshot seems to be a transition of portions of the upper left parts of what looks like fundamentally different ones, further with origins at different horizontal positions.   Therefore I am afraid we are looking at something different to just "increasingly flattened sigmoid curves."   ... View more