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Color-coding your ruler guides
Most of us create different guides to do different things. We might create bleed guides, a page grid, and another set of guides to position objects that aren't snapped to the page grid. Wouldn't it be nice if you could color-code your ruler guides in order to visually identify which guides do what job? In InDesign you can do just that. You can assign different colors to your guides on a guide by guide basis.[an error occurred while processing this directive]
1. Select the ruler guides to which you wish to assign a new display color.
2. Use Layout > Ruler Guides or the contextual menu to get to the Ruler Guides dialog box. There you can select the color you want for your ruler guides. before: all the guides look the same after: different colors for different functions.
Locking individual ruler guides
You're probably used to having to either lock the position of either all or non of your ruler guides. InDesign gives you the flexibility of locking down your guides on a guide-byguide basis, so that it's not an all or nothing choice that you have to make in every situation.
Locking any selected guide(s) is just like locking the position of any other object in InDesign. Select the guide(s) you'd like to lock and then use the Object > Lock Position command.
Managing ruler guides with layers
Once you've created and assigned colors to all your guides, there is another thing that InDesign can do for you to make working with ruler guides more efficient and more powerful. In InDesign you can assign ruler guides to different layers and then take advantage of the locking and visibility features.
1. Like any other object in InDesign, when you create an object in InDesign, it gets assigned to the active layer.
2. Also just like any other object. You can move selected guides from layer to layer. Click on the square object proxy in the later palette and drag it to the layer to which you desire to move the object.
3. Once you've got your ruler guides segregated to their desired layers, you can use each layer's visibility toggle to choose which sets of guides you want to see/use at any given time, without being distracted or confused by other guides you don't need at the time. If you typically use a lot of ruler guides in your layout, this can be a major benefit.
4. You can also lock ruler guides on a layer by layer basis easily by using the layer's locking toggle switch. This way you can quickly lock down some sets of guides, but keep some sets editable and adjustable.
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