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078 Using ruler guides: 10 great tricks - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
078 Using ruler guides: 10 great tricks
Ruler Guides are great way to ensure that your layouts are well designed, and they are so easy to make. You just drag them out of the rulers at the top edge or the left edge of your document window. Everyone knows how to do that, but here are ten great ruler tricks that you might not know. First, if you drag a guide out and you let go of it on top of the page, it becomes a page guide. But if you let go of it while your mouse cursor is on top of the Paste Board, it becomes a Paste Board Guide. Some people call these Spread Guides because they go all the way across a two-page facing spread. Next, when you're dragging out guides, sometimes you don't know where to drop it. But if you want to drop it so that it's exactly along one of these tick marks in the ruler, hold down the Shift key. The Shift key makes sure that these guides are always snapped to the nearest tick mark in the ruler. So if I place it here and let go over the mouse button, I know it snapped exactly to 30 picas, not…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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