Working with Guides

Adding Guides

You can add guides in 2 ways:

Dragging a guide from the ruler, either vertically or horizontally.
Selecting the Create Guide button from the View tab. This gives you greater control of the position of the guide.

When you create a guide you can set the distance from the top left of the page, either horizontally or vertically. You can set which page the guide appears on. And if it is a Page Guide or Document Guide.

Page Guides just appear on one page
Document Guides appear on all pages

Editing Guides

You can drag a guide to move it, unless it is locked.

To edit an individual guide right-click on it to bring up the context menu. From here you can:

Convert the line into a Document Guide or Page Guide
Lock and Unlock the Guide
Delete the guide
Delete All Guides in the document
Access the Guide Properties to position the guide in a precise way

Grid and Guide Settings

The Grid and Guide Settings allow you:

to set the measurements and line colour for the Grid
to set the colours for the Guides