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Use guides and grids

Use guides and grids - InDesign Tutorial

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Use guides and grids

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at what you need to know about using grids and guides for the InDesign ACA exam. Since there are a lot of useful controls for working with guides in the Properties panel, I'll go ahead and show that. Guides are non-printing lines that help you position and align items and you can make a guide simply by dragging out from a ruler. Drag from a vertical ruler to make a vertical guide. Or a horizontal ruler to make a horizontal guide. Or switch as you're dragging by holding the Option or Alt key and releasing. To delete a guide, click to select it with either selection tool and press Delete. You can also place guides by double clicking on a ruler. You can prevent guides from being accidentally moved by choosing View, Grids and Guides, Lock Guides or by clicking the Lock Guides button in the Properties panel. Click the same button to unlock your guides. And also notice there's a button here to hide guides, so you can see your artwork without guides if you…

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