10.2

Working with guides
Guides are nonprinting guidelines that help you to line up items and text in a layout.
There are three types of guides: Ruler guides, column and margin guides and Dynamic
guides.
Design grids are nonprinting guidelines that you can use to align items and text
according to text size and position.
For more information, see "Guide Manager Pro XTensions software" and "Understanding
design grids."
Column and margin guides
Column and margin guides show where a page's outside margins are and where columns
(if any) should be placed.
QuarkXPress automatically places column guides and margin guides in all new Print
layouts. You can specify their position in the Column Guides and Margin Guides
fields in the New Project dialog box (File > New > Project) or in the New Layout
dialog box (Layout > New).
When a master page is displayed in the project window, you can use the Master Guides
& Grid dialog box (Page > Master Guides & Grid) to change the placement of column
guides and margin guides. If you check Automatic Text Box in the New Project dialog
box (File > New > Project) or the New Layout dialog box (Layout > New), the values
you specify in the Margin Guides area define the size and placement of the automatic
text box.
For information about creating column and margin guides, see "Configuring a master
page grid."
For more information, see "Guide Manager Pro XTensions software."
Ruler guides
Ruler guides (or simply "guides") are nonprinting guidelines that you can position
manually. You can create ruler guides by dragging them off the horizontal and vertical
rulers (View > Rulers). You can create ruler guides on master pages and on individual
layout pages.
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To create a horizontal ruler guide, click the top ruler; when the pointer displays, drag
the ruler guide into position on the page. To create a vertical ruler guide, click the
vertical ruler, and then drag the ruler guide onto the page when the pointer
displays. If the Measurements palette is open when you drag a ruler guide, the guide's
position is indicated in the X field (for vertical ruler guides) or the Y field (for horizontal
ruler guides).
• If, as you create a horizontal ruler guide, you release the mouse button when the ruler
guide is positioned over the pasteboard, the ruler guide will extend across the pasteboard
and all the pages in the spread. If you release the mouse button when the horizontal
ruler guide is positioned over a document page, the ruler guide will display only on
that page.
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