Apple Keynote '08 - Manual (Page 72)

72 Chapter 4 Working with Sound, Movies, Graphics, and Other Objects
3 Drag the guide where you want it on the slide.
Note: Alignment guides can’t be created if you are editing text. Stop editing text by
selecting an object or clicking the slide canvas.
To remove an alignment guide that you’ve created, drag it off the edge of the slide.
Using Master Gridlines
In addition to alignment guides on a slide, you can turn on vertical and horizontal
gridlines that divide a slide into equal sections.
Gridlines show on master slides, and appear on a slide when an object (its center or
edge, depending on your Object Alignment preferences) aligns with a gridline.
Gridlines don’t appear on printed slides.
To turn on master gridlines:
1 Choose Keynote > Preferences, and then click Rulers.
2 Select either or both of the Master Gridlines checkboxes.
3 Type a percentage value in the field to specify how close together the gridlines should
be.
4 To change the color of gridlines, click the Master Gridlines color well and select a color
in the Colors window.
To temporarily hide gridlines, hold down the Command key while you drag an object.
Setting Precise Positions of Objects
You use the Metrics Inspector to precisely locate objects.
To set the precise position of an object:
1 Select the object you want to position.
2 Click Inspector in the toolbar, and then click the Metrics Inspector button.
3 Enter X and Y values in the Position fields.
The specified coordinates determine the position of the upper-left corner of the
object’s container box.
 The X value is measured from the left edge of the slide canvas.
 The Y value is measured from the top edge of the slide canvas.
If an object is rotated, the X and Y coordinates specify the upper-left corner of the
rotated container box.