Tip of the Week - Control Guides Quickly with InDesign

Here's a great tip from InDesign Magazine's Claudia McCue:

Here are three quick ways to control Guides:

1. Step and Repeat. Select a guide and choose Edit > Step and Repeat, as you would with any object in the page.
2. Distribute. Select three or more guides and use the Distribute controls in the Align panel (Window > Object > Layout > Align). This is a great way to get equal spacing between them.
3. Change color. Select guides with the Selection tool, then choose Layout > Ruler Guides and pick from the absurdly long list of colors (including Lipstick and Cute Teal).

Claudia McCue

Changing the guide color may seem silly, but think about it. If you have a document that has the same color as the guides in it, you may have a hard time finding the guides. Change the guide color to something not in your document and the problem is solved! FEC