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Positioning guides numerically

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Positioning guides numerically

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- [Instructor] All right now I'll show you how to position guides numerically from the Transform panel. And so let's imagine that I want to add a couple of horizontal guides and a couple of vertical guides that are going to ensure that you and I get exactly the same results. I'll start with the horizontal guides. So I'll just go ahead and drag out a couple of these guides like so, and notice that my guides are unlocked as a result of the previous movie. And now I'll just go ahead and click on this first guide to select it. Or if you're having problems clicking exactly on a guide and you keep missing it, then a couple of things to note, first of all, notice your cursor. Notice how, when you're not positioned over anything that you can select, that it appears just as an arrowhead. And this assumes by the way that you're working with the black arrow tool which Illustrator calls the Selection Tool up here at the…

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