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Rulers, guides, and grids

Rulers, guides, and grids - InDesign Tutorial

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Rulers, guides, and grids

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We briefly talked about the rulers in previous lessons I just wanted to talk a little bit more about them so first of all in the properties panel is probably the easiest place to find the rulers option you can turn it on or off with this icon here very quick and easy way to access it and once the rulers are visible you can right click on them to change the measurement units. Now currently I have millimeters for both my horizontal and vertical rulers but for instance if I change this one up here to centimeters notice how the other ruler is not going to change automatically so in InDesign you can have different measurement units for the horizontal and vertical rulers that's just worth remembering and you even have a custom measurement option where you can put in the exact amount of points that you would consider as a single measurement unit so for instance if I type in 50 then obviously I will have only a few divisions here on the top and once again I can go back and I can change this…

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