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MOVE TO LAYER IN FRONT and MOVE TO LAYER BEHIND on the ARRANGE menu (or right
click and choose "
ARRANGE" > "MOVE TO LAYER IN FRONT/BEHIND") will skip the
guides layer and so cannot be used to move objects onto the guides layer.
Creating a guideline
Guidelines are vertical or horizontal lines and are a quick and easy way to align a
series of objects on the page.
• Turn rulers on ("Ctrl + L").
• Drag from a ruler onto the page.
Or
• Double click on the ruler to create a guideline aligned to the click point.
This automatically creates a guides layer and puts the guidelines on that layer.
Or, using the Page & Layer Gallery (on page 149):
1. Right click in the Page & Layer Gallery and choose PROPERTIES.
2. If necessary, click the Guides tab.
3. Select horizontal or vertical.
4. Click new.
5. Type in the required position.
Deleting a guideline
Using the Selector TOOL drag the guideline onto the appropriate ruler (the vertical
ruler for vertical guidelines, horizontal ruler for horizontal).
Or, right click on the guideline and then choose
DELETE.
Grouping and ungrouping objects
The Shadow and Transparency Tools offer different results depending on whether
objects are grouped or not. For more information see "Transparency (on page 222)"
and "Shadows (on page 233)".
You will often create complex shapes from several different objects. The "ARRANGE" >
"
GROUP" menu option (or right click selected objects and choose GROUP) lets you lock
those objects together to form what appears as a single object. You can then select
the grouped objects and copy, rescale, move or perform any other operation on the
entire group.