Need help with Coreldraw 12

I am trying to fit C M R to path at the top of my object /shape centered and below the top line a little.
And I also want to fit S U D - O U E S T to a path at the bottom also above the baseline a little .I have been trying but things are not working right.I am not very good at using Coreldraw but want to learn.Any help would be appreciated.Thank you ,Gordon

[shelbym]

My suggestion would be to draw two new paths for the text to follow, since your object looks to be a trace of a bitmap and has tons of extra nodes. It will make it work so much smoother.

Here is an example.

-Shelby