From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign

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Create guides - InDesign Tutorial

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- [Instructor] So we have our columns here in our layout which is very good for positioning things horizontally. We've got a clear way to divide up that space visually when we're laying items onto it. But we don't have anything that is dividing the space up vertically. So let's take a look at how we can do that. Just going to go up to the layout menu in the top level menu system and we're going to come down to this option here, create guides. And so what we're going to do is we're going to have five rows and we're going to have a five millimeter gutter, now that should actually have pre-populated that based on the gutter for the columns but just in case there's the five millimeters there. For the columns, we're going to have six so they mirror what we have on the layout already. We're going to make sure that the guides are fitting into the margins. Okay, and we don't have any ruler guides existing to remove. When…

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