Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 65)

57 USING INDESIGN CS4
Layout
Ruler guides evenly spaced within page margins (left) and page edges (right)
6 To delete any existing guides (including guides on locked or hidden layers), select Remove Existing Ruler Guides.
7 If you like, select Preview to see the effect of your settings on the page, and then click OK.
Note: The Create Guides command can create page guides only; it cannot create spread guides.
To space existing guides a uniform distance apart, select the guides (by dragging or pressing Shift as you click with the
mouse). Then, select Use Spacing from the Control panel, type the space value in the text box, and press Enter or
Return to confirm. Click either Distribute Horizontal Centers or Distribute Vertical Centers to the left of the Use
Spacing option.
Show or hide guides
• To show or hide all margin, column, and ruler guides, choose View > Grids & Guides > Show/Hide Guides.
• To show or hide ruler guides on one layer only without changing the visibility of the layer’s objects, double-click
the layer name in the Layers panel, select or deselect Show Guides, and then click
OK.
• To show or hide guides and all other non-printing elements, click the Preview Mode icon at the bottom of the
Toolbox.
Work with ruler guides
You can change the attributes of individual ruler guides, and you can move, cut, copy, paste, or delete multiple ruler
guides simultaneously. Cut or copied ruler guides can be pasted to other pages or documents, but not to other
programs. To change attributes of specific guides, you must select the guides you want to change. When no guides are
selected, the Ruler Guides command sets the defaults for new guides only.
Select ruler guides
Unselected ruler guides appear light blue by default. Selected ruler guides are highlighted in their layer color. When a
guide is selected, the Reference Point icon in the Control panel changes to
or , representing the selected guide.
• To select a single ruler guide, use the Selection tool or the Direct Selection tool and click the guide to highlight
it in its layer color.
If you can’t select a ruler guide and the View > Grids & Guides > Lock Guides command is already deselected, the
guide might be on that page’s master, or on a layer where guides are locked.
• To select multiple ruler guides, hold down Shift as you click guides using the Selection or Direct Selection tool. You
can also drag over multiple guides, as long as the selection marquee doesn’t touch or enclose any other object.
• To select all ruler guides on the target spread, press Ctrl+Alt+G (Windows) or Command+Option+G (Mac OS).
Updated 18 June 2009