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Hey  everyone, right now I'm working on a project and I needed to join paths,  but nothing seems to work. I wanted a rounded bump with sloping sides  so I used three ellipses and deleted the two outer ones leaving their  curved edges. But for some reason no matter what I select in the  pathfinder I can't make it one solid shape, I would then join that shape  with the border and it's be perfect. Alas the sloping parts fill  OUTSIDE. Any advice on this?

 Also, something I never figured  out: When typing how do I get to another tool or end the typing segment  without manually going and clicking another tool? Same with the pen  tool, whenever I'm done if it's not a closed shape and just a path I  don't know how to end the path without manually selecting the pointer... 

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