The Guides palette provides powerful controls for manipulating guides.

The Guides palette

The Guides palette works as follows:

• Controls across the top of the palette, from left to right, let you create new guides, mirror guides, show horizontal guides, show vertical guides, show only current guides, and delete guides.
• To sort guides by an attribute, click the column heading for that attribute.
• To add columns of information to the palette, choose an option from the Column Selector button at the right side of the list of columns.
• The Spread column displays a number for each page or spread in the layout. To display a page or spread, click that spread in the Spread column. To display a spread’s guides in the palette, click the arrow next to the spread. To edit a guide, double-click it.
• To display a context menu of editing options, Control+click/Right-click in each column. For example, the context menu for the Guide column includes the following options: Cut Guide, Copy Guide, Paste Guide, Delete Guide and Select All Guides.

For information about the options in the palette menu, see “Guides palette menu.”

Regardless of whether guides are showing on-screen, you can work with them in the Guides palette (Window menu) as follows:

• To view a page or spread’s guides, click the arrow next to that page or spread in the Guide column.
• To view guides on all the pages or spreads, Option/Alt+click an arrow next to a spread.
• To display only vertical or horizontal guides, choose Show Vertical Guides or Show Horizontal Guides from the palette menu. To display all guides, choose both.
• To display only page guides (horizontal guides limited to a single page) or only spread guides (horizontal guides that encompass all the pages in a spread), choose Show Page Guides or Show Spread Guides from the palette menu. To display all guides choose both.
• To display only guides on the page or spread displayed in the project window, choose Show Current Only from the palette menu.