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Guides and measurements

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Guides and measurements

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- [Instructor] Adding guides to your documents is really helpful because it maintains consistency and it helps you lay out pages fast. The basic way to add a guide to a page is simply by dragging it out of the ruler. For example, I have my brochure document open from the exercise files folder, and I'm going to go up to this horizontal ruler at the top of the page and I'll simply drag out a guide. Now, here's the thing. If I let go of the mouse button when I'm over the page, I get a page guide. Now, this is a three-page spread, so we just get that tiny little guide across one page. I'll drag out another guide, and this time, instead of letting go of the mouse button while I'm over the page, I'm going to drag it out onto the pasteboard. If I let go of the mouse button now, I get a pasteboard guide. Some people call this a spread guide because it goes across all the pages on my spread. Now, once I have a guide on my page, I can move it simply by clicking on it with a Selection tool…

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