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Guides and measurements

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Guides and measurements

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- [Instructor] Adding guides to your documents is really helpful because it maintains consistency and it helps you lay out pages fast. Now, the basic way to add a guide to a page is simply by dragging it out of the ruler. For example, I have my brochure document open from the exercise files folder, and I'm going to go up to this horizontal ruler at the top of my page, and simply drag out a guide. If I let go of the mouse button, when I'm over the page, I get a page guide. Now this is a three-page spread. So we just get that tiny little guide across one page. Now, if I drag out another guide, but this time I let go of the mouse button, when the cursor is over the pasteboard board out here, now I get a spread guide. Some people call this a pasteboard guide. This goes all the way across the pasteboard, including all the pages of the spread. Once I have a guide on my page, I can move it simply by clicking on it with a…

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