Creating Guides

  Choose Show Rulers from the view menu.     Click in the ruler and drag the mouse onto the page; a new guide will follow the mouse as you drag it.    When you've positioned the guide, release the mouse.


Guides are used to align items on the page. When you drag an item near a guide, its edges will snap to the guide if you have that option enabled in the View menu.
Dragging from the horizontal ruler creates a horizontal guide; similarly, start in the vertical ruler to make a vertical guide.
Guides will snap to the tick marks on the rulers if you hold down the Shift key while dragging them.
Remove guides by dragging them back into the rulers or off to the side of the document.
To make guides invisible while proofing a page, select View Hide Guides. View Show Guides will make them visible again.
If you select View Guide Snap On and move an item with the Arrow Tool, the item will snap to the guides. Items will snap to guides only when this menu option is enabled and the guides are visible.


See also

Show Rulers command