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Creating custom margins guides

Creating custom margins guides - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating custom margins guides

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- All right, now the Area Type Option is one way to work, but it is a little creaky, as we saw. And that's not the way I ultimately decided to create this document. What I decided to do was to establish the yellow background on an independent layer. I also created margin guides, like so. And then I set my text frame inside those margin guides. And let me show you how that works. I'm going to go ahead and double-click somewhere inside this text, in order to automatically switch to the type tool and position my blinking insertion marker and then I'll select of that text by pressing CTRL+A or CMD+A on the Mac. So, that "Select All" command works with text, as well. All right, now I'll press CTRL+X or CMD+X on the Mac in order to cut that text. And then I'll press that ESC key in order to exit the text entry mode. And I'll get rid of this text block by pressing the Backspace key or the Delete Key on the Mac. Now…

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