Moving guidelines

Guidelines help you line up objects as you create your drawing. You may find you want to move a guideline to a different part of the drawing or change its position slightly.

To move a guideline

The easiest way is to drag the guideline to the required position.

To position a guideline accurately

1. Right-click on the guideline to open the guideline pop-up menu.

2. Choose Properties to open the Guideline Properties dialog box.

3. Type a new position into the field and click OK.

To position several guidelines

You can only use this in Drawing documents.

1. Open the Layer Gallery.

2. Right-click on the guides layer to open the layer pop-up menu.

3. Choose Properties to open the Layer Properties dialog box.

4. Open the Guides tab.

5. Select Horizontal or Vertical.

6. Click Properties (this button is dimmed if you have more than one guideline selected) to open the Guideline Properties dialog box.

7. Enter a new value for the position.

Tips

If the Editable setting for the guides layer (set using the Layer Gallery) has been turned off, you will not be able to use the first two methods - the guides layer must be unlocked first.

The units used for guideline positioning are the page units, see Changing the page units. Note however that the units used on the rulers (and grid) are set using the Grid and Ruler Options.

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Related Topics

Guidelines

Layer Gallery