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How InDesign Handles Margin Guides

Like XPress, the margin and column guides on each document page reflect those on the master page. However, unlike XPress, you can override the margin and column guides on individual document pages. Because of this capability, you have to be aware of whether you're on a master page or a document page before editing guides; consider locking your guides to prevent unintended modifications (see the previous chapter for more on locking guides).

By default, the margin guides are pink (magenta) and the column guides are violet. That's why in a normal, one-column document the top and bottom margins appear pink and the left and right margins appear purple (because the column guides are overlapping the margin guides). If you wish, you can change the colors by opening the Preferences dialog box and selecting Guides.

Hiding Guides

To turn off guide display, choose Hide Guides from the View menu (or press Command-;/Ctrl-;). Hiding a layer also hides all guides on that layer. You can also turn on the Preview mode in the Tools palette (or press W when not editing text) to hide all non-printing objects, like guides.

Editing Margin & Column Guides

Before you edit your margin or column guides, select one or more pages in the Pages palette (see Chapter 31)the page you're looking at on screen may or may not be the page that gets affected. If you select the master page in the Pages palette, the changes you make will affect the master page (and all document pages based on that master page), even if you're not currently looking at the master page!

Next, select the Margin and Columns command from the Layout menu and enter the desired values in the Margins and Columns dialog box (see Figure 35-1). We like to turn on the Preview checkbox so we can see the effect before clicking OK. Whether or not the objects on your page change (like text frames resizing to the new margins) after you click OK depends on the Layout Adjustment option (see below).

Yes, changing the values in the Margins and Columns dialog box while no documents are open establishes a new, default set of values for all future documents you create.

Of course, editing columns with the Margin and Columns dialog box always results in equally-sized columns. If you need unequal columnslike a larger column on the leftyou can drag the column guides to where you want them. Unfortunately, there's no way to position these numerically other than just watching the value in the Transform palette.