InDesign Tips: Making the Most of Rulers and Guides
Rulers and guides are essential for positioning objects with precision in your page-layout program. Anyone who uses QuarkXPress, PageMaker or InDesign is familiar with basic ruler operations like changing units of measurement, resetting the zero point, or dragging guides onto pages.
But there’s more to rulers and guides than picas and inches. Adobe InDesign offers many ways you can leverage rulers and guides when designing a page layout or creating a document template. For instance you can color code guides, use guides on layers, and save them in libraries.
This batch of tips from Adobe InDesign evangelist Tim Cole shows you 11 different ways to get the most out of InDesign’s ruler and guides, including how to use the Create Guides feature and how to use guides with the Align Palette.
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This article was last modified on March 10, 2025
This article was first published on September 12, 2003
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