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Want your guides to match up with ruler units? It’s easy. Just hold the Shift key when dragging out a guide to snap it to ruler tick marks. Double-click on the ruler to quickly create a guide where you clicked.
Also, holding shift while you double click the ruler snaps the guide to the nearest tick mark.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on November 7, 2017
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