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Using guides and arranging, aligning, grouping, and locking layout objects

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Using guides and arranging, aligning, grouping, and locking layout objects

- [Instructor] Layout objects are the building blocks of layouts. Everything you place on a layout, be it a field, an image, a portal, a label, whatever it is, is considered an object. And all objects have particular attributes that you can manipulate. Now in order to do so you must always be in layout mode. And in layout mode you can group any combination of objects or you can edit or move them together, change the stacking order, align them, anything that you'd like. And what I'm going to focus on here in this movie is I'm going to show you how you can align layout objects and arrange them in various different ways. So first of all, hopefully when you're looking at the layout that we have here on screen that you're sort of bumped a little bit by this and you know that this is not something that's acceptable to roll out to your users. And we're building pretty simple, rudimentary layouts in this course anyways, but really even at the most basic level you need to make sure that…

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