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Guidelines

You can use horizontal and vertical guides as a straight-edge, to align and place objects precisely. When an edge or the center of an object gets close to a guide, that edge or center automatically snaps to the guide.

To set up guidelines:

  1. Choose View | Guidelines Setup.
  2. To run the guideline horizontally across your page, click Horizontal.
  3. Enter a position (distance from the top of your page) for the guideline, and click Set.
  4. To run the guideline vertically down your page, click Vertical.
  5. Enter a position (distance from the left edge of your page) for the guideline, and click Set.
  6. Click the Display Guidelines check box.
  7. Click the Snap to Guidelines check box.
  8. Click OK.

To turn off guidelines:

To move a guideline:

  1. Move the cursor over the guideline.
  2. Click and hold the left mouse button.
  3. Move the guideline to a new location.
  4. Release the mouse button.

To create a new guideline with the mouse:

  1. Move the cursor over the guideline.
  2. Press and hold the Ctrl key.
  3. Click and hold the left mouse button.
  4. Move the guideline to a new position.
  5. Release the mouse button and Ctrl key.

To delete a guideline with the mouse:

See Also

Guidelines Setup dialog box