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Ruler Guides

A ruler guide is horizontal or vertical guide that you can move to any point on the ruler. You use ruler guides to help you align the elements you lay out in your publication. When the Snap to Ruler Marks feature is turned on, objects you place near a ruler guide will automatically snap into alignment.

To show or hide rulers, open the View menu and select Rulers.

To create a guide, click and drag your mouse from the horizontal or vertical ruler to any page or master page in your publication:

You can create as many guides as you need. Click and drag the guides to change their position.

Ruler guides are specific to each page on which you create them, so you can lay out each page differently. If you add guides to a master page, each publication page that uses that master page will display the same guides.

To turn on Snap to Ruler Marks, open the Arrange menu and select Snap and then To Ruler Marks. When you place an object near a ruler guide or an intersection of guides, the object snaps into place:

Similarly, you can turn on the Snap to Objects feature to snap ruler guides to objects: From the Arrange menu, select Snap, and then Snap to Objects.

To remove a ruler guide, right-click on it and select Delete Guide from the shortcut menu, or simply drag it off the page.

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