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Figure 24 The guides palette enables you to precisely add or modify the position of a guide. In my example above, and referencing the figure before it, I have modified the imprecise placement of the first guide to a whole number. Modifying the value here in the palette will move the guide on the page.

The two most important features are the ability to type the placement of a guide into a field and the ability to copy guides and paste them to another page. No longer must you zoom in to 800% to affect precise control over the position of a guide.

Figure 25 When you click the plus icon at the top of the guides palette, you prompt the guide attributes dialogue box. Here you can precisely define the placement of your guide, and even provide a view scale so that the guide appears when you are viewing the page at a larger scale than that defined here or locked so that the guide cannot be moved.

Tip: An easy way to invoke the guide attributes dialogue box
is to double click on a guide.

Tip: If you have set up guides that you need in another document, you may import and export them using the guide palette. (They are not available through the append feature.)

To copy guides from one page to another, open the guides palette and multiple select the guides to copy, OPTION + CLICK or RIGHT CLICK to copy the guides, then scroll to another page or spread within the palette and PASTE.

The guides feature is so robust and has so many possible applications, that I could publish an entire story on the myriad of ways that I have seen these used. Suffice it to say that the feature set is extensive. Two features, for me, stand out: the ability to divide my page into a grid (within the page area or within the margin area), and the ability to place guides at the edges of items.

Figure 26 Easily divide a page into columns and row (or grids) using the guides feature.

Figure 27 To create guides at the edge(s) of a selected item, select the item and choose
CREATE GUIDES FROM BOX from the guides palette fly-out menu.

Note: The guides palette is not sensitive to the zero point of your ruler. Guides placement is recorded as though the top-left corner
of your page is zero.

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