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Align text to a baseline grid

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Align text to a baseline grid

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- [Instructor] Now that our main paragraph styles have been applied and our document has some structure, let's just turn our attention to a baseline grid. So I'm doing this at this point because it was at this point that I noticed the problem. And the problem we see on this spread, pages 12 and 13, where on the right-hand page, the text does not come down to the bottom margin. So they're slightly misaligned across pages. There are other ways you can do this, but I just prefer to use a baseline grid. So first of all, we need to establish the baseline grid. And we will do that in Preferences, Grids. I'm going to change the color of the grid to light gray, which is just a personal preference. I'll have it start at zero relative to the top margin. Now we are using a Leading value of 15, so the obvious grid increment would be 15. I'm actually going to halve that, 7.5, which will give me just a bit more flexibility. I'll go ahead and click OK and then come to my View options and turn the…

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