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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers

040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers

Do you want to be seen as the coolest InDesign geek in your office? Let me show you a few very cool tricks that you can do with the most prosaic of features in the program, Ruler Guides. You know that when you drag down a guide, take a look at the Control panel at the measurements. The Y field, it's saying .3937 inches at this points, or if I bring down a little bit .4097 inches. When was the last time that you needed that exact measure for your guideline? Who needs that? Normally, you need the ruler guides to appear at a regular increments in whatever measuring system that you're using, and the answer there is simply to hold down the Shift key. It says .375. I go up, it says .25. I go up it says .1597 inches and that is only because I have smart guides turned down. So watch as I drag down past this Golden Gate text frame, .375. Now it says .5, .625, .75, .8284. Why is it there? Because that's the exact center of the Golden Gate text frame. You'll find if you use this trick of…

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