Apple Pages - Manual (Page 37)

Chapter 2 Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates 37
Alignment Guides
As you move fixed text boxes and graphics around in the document, blue alignment
guides appear to help you center and align objects on the page. They appear
whenever the center or edge of an object aligns with the center or edge of another
object, or with the center of the page, depending upon your preferences. You can
create your own alignment guides to help you align objects precisely on a page.
Alignment guides (even those you create) don’t appear when you print your
document; they are visible only when you are editing a document.
To place alignment guides on a page:
1 Choose View > Show Rulers to make the rulers appear at the top and left side of the
page.
2 Click outside any areas of the page so that the insertion point is not visible.
3 Place the pointer over a ruler and drag onto the page. A blue alignment guide
appears.
4 Drag the guide wherever you want it on the page.
To remove alignment guides that you have placed on a page:
m Drag the alignment guide off the edge of the page.
If alignment guides are getting in the way as you work, you can temporarily hide
them.
To temporarily hide alignment guides:
m Hold down the Command key while dragging an object.
You can turn alignment guides and size and position tags on or off in Pages
Preferences. You can also make alignment guides appear only when object edges are
aligned, or only when object centers are aligned.
When you change alignment guide and tag settings in Pages Preferences, the new
settings apply to all documents viewed in Pages, until you change the settings again.
To change the behavior of alignment guides and tags displayed when you move
objects:
1 Choose Pages > Preferences.
2 To turn off size and position tags, deselect “Editing: Show size and position when
moving objects.”