Here’s the trick for creating guides on just one page or the whole spread in InDesign:
1. To create a page guide that extends to the edges of a page, drag a guide from the ruler and release the guide over the page.
2. To create a spread guide that extends to the edges of the pasteboard, drag a guide from the ruler and release the guide over the pasteboard (or hold the Command/Ctrl key while you release the guide.
This article was last modified on January 12, 2026
This article was first published on June 3, 2019
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