Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages - Adobe InDesign CC - page 77

Note
The controls in the Transform panel are similar to those in the Control pan-
el. You can use either panel to make many common modifications, such as
changing position, size, scale, and angle of rotation.
2. Open the Transform panel (Window > Object & Layout > Transform). Without
clicking in your document, move the pointer around the document window and
watch the horizontal and vertical rulers as the pointer moves. Notice how the hair-
line indicators in the rulers correspond to the pointer's position. Also notice that
the dimmed X and Y values in the Control panel and the Transform panel indicate
the position of the pointer.
3. Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and position your pointer on the ho-
rizontal ruler anywhere above the spread. Drag a ruler guide down to 2p6. The Y
value is displayed next to the pointer while you drag and is also displayed in the Y
box in the Control panel and the Transform panel. Pressing Ctrl (Windows) or
Command (Mac OS) when you create a guide causes the guide to extend across
both pages of the spread, as well as the pasteboard on either side. If you don't
press Ctrl or Command, the guide will extend only across the page on which you
release the mouse button.
4. Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and drag two more ruler guides from
the horizontal ruler: one to 5p and the other to 63p.
5. Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and drag a ruler guide from the ver-
tical ruler to the 17p8 position. Watch the X value in the Control panel as you drag.
The guide snaps to the column guide at that location. If the X value doesn't display
17p8 as you drag, place the guide as close as you can, and then—with the guide
still selected—highlight the X value in the Control panel or Transform panel, enter
17p8 , and then press Enter or Return.
6. Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and drag another guide from the ver-
tical ruler to the 84p4 position.