From the course: Introducing InDesign
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Setting ruler and column guides - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introducing InDesign
Setting ruler and column guides
- In this movie, I'll show you how to set custom ruler guides as well as column guides inside InDesign. Now, the thing to bear in mind when you're working with InDesign is that everything is a selectable object. So in that regard, it's very different than a word processor. So, for example, if my black selection tool is active at the top of the toolbox, then I can click on an object in order to select it. In my case, I've gone and selected this text object right here. Now, I can drag that object to a different location. So it's just like dragging some text across a real-world piece of paper. The advantage, however, of working inside of InDesign as opposed to engaging in traditional paste up as in the old days, is that you have these colorful guidelines that give your document structure. For example, notice if I drag this object back over to the left-hand side, at a point it's going to snap into alignment with that vertical guide. So once again, I'll go ahead and move this guy over a…
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