Move ruler guides, Delete ruler guides, Customize ruler guides – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Layout
Move ruler guides
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Using Selection tool
or the Direct Selection tool
, do any of the following:
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To move a ruler guide, drag it.
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To move multiple ruler guides, shift-select the guides you want to move, and then drag them.
Move selected guides just as you would any other selected object, including nudging with the arrow keys and using the
Control or Transform panels.
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To make a guide snap to a ruler tick mark, press Shift as you drag it. Or select the guide, press and hold down the
Shift key, and then click the mouse button.
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To move a spread guide, drag the part of the guide that’s on the pasteboard, or press Ctrl (Windows) or Command
(Mac
OS) as you drag the guide from within the page.
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To move guides to another page or document, select one or more guides, choose Edit > Copy or Edit > Cut, go to
another page, and then choose Edit > Paste. If you’re pasting onto a page of the same size and orientation as the
guides’ original page, the guides appear in the same position.
Note: The Paste Remembers Layers option affects the layer on which pasted guides appear.
Delete ruler guides
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To delete individual guides, select one or more ruler guides and then press Delete. (You can also drag ruler guides
and drop them on a ruler to delete them.)
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To delete all ruler guides on the target spread, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac
OS) a selected guide or
ruler, and choose Delete All Guides.
If you cannot delete a guide, it may be locked, it may be on a master page, or it may be on a locked layer.
Customize ruler guides
1 Do one of the following:
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To change options for one or more existing ruler guides, select those ruler guides.
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To set default options for new ruler guides, deselect all guides by clicking in an empty area.
2 Choose Layout > Ruler Guides.
3 For View Threshold, specify the magnification below which ruler guides do not appear. This prevents ruler guides
from appearing too close together at lower magnifications.
4 For Color, choose a color or choose Custom to specify a custom color in the system color picker. Then click OK.
You can set the current magnification as the view threshold for new ruler guides by pressing Alt (Windows) or Option
(Mac OS) as you drag the ruler guides you’ve selected.
Lock or unlock ruler guides
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To lock or unlock all ruler guides, choose View
> Grids & Guides > Lock Guides to select or deselect the menu
command.
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To lock or unlock ruler guides on one layer only, without changing the visibility of the layer’s objects, double-click
the layer name in the Layers panel, select or deselect Lock Guides, and then click
OK.
Updated 18 June 2009