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PageMaker 7.0 is one of the best and popular Desktop Publishing Designing Program developed by
Adobe Corporation in USA. It is specially used in page designing. Today is popular in press and printing
jobs with the help of this program, we can create any kinds of Designing like Visiting cards, Identity card,
advertisement, Logo, Brochures, News papers and different articles etc. It is quite easy with its leading,
tracking, set with features to adjust the text and to make publication
designing.
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Adobe PageMaker is page laying or page composition (Desktop publishing) software that automates all
the steps developing a printed document. Composition is the process of laying out text and graphics
typography, line boxes pictures, drawing and colors on a page. PageMaker is considered by many
industries experts and by many users to be one of most functional, experts system available for the
design and composition of document.
The PageMaker demonstrated in 1985. The latest generation of PageMaker is 6.5 improvements In
1996. It is now an extremely powerful desktop publishing and graphics tool, made even more significant
by graphics designers and artists, technical writers and illustrators, corporate communications
departments, marketing groups, newspapers, magazines, and book publishers.
PageMaker includes such features as multiple master pages, automatic layout adjustment and text
graphic frame to help you achieve the look you want quickly. Multiple master pages allow you to specify
and apply different page designs, such as margins and columns within a single publication. Use it to
create a variety of documents, from a several page brochure to a complex report of up to 999 pages.
PageMaker automatically repositions resizes and re-flows text blocks, frames and graphics when you
alter columns orientation or master pages and you can quickly lay out your publication by creating
frames to hold text and graphics.
Steps:
2. Choose programs.
Or,
3. Type “PM70”.
4. Click on ok button.
Creating a new document is similar to taping a clean shut of page paper to your drawing board, before
you begin towards you must tell page maker something about the paper such as the margins
specifications, paper size.
1. Page size:
Indicates the size of paper for the document based on the printer you have selected.
2. Dimensions:
This option indicates the width and height of the paper specified in the page list box. Enter your own
dimension here to define a custom page size.
3. Orientation:
The default orientation is tall (also called portrait), wide orientation turns the page 900 (also called
Landscape)
4. Start page:
This option indicates which page number from you want to start. If you want to your first number to be
10 and second page will be 11 and so on enter in the text box.
5. Options
Remove the tick mark from double sided, if you want to create one sided design.
6. Margin:
The default margins for a new document will display if you want to change as your wish you can change
margin in the left, right, top and bottom box.
7. Number of page:
When you create a new document PageMaker’s set the number of pages. You can enter any number of
pages up to 999 in the box.
In PageMaker there are 14 types of toolbars found in the toolbar which are use to create, edit, move,
view, found etc of your document.
From the Window menu and choose Show Tools or Hide Tools to display or hide the toolbox.
1. Pointer tool:
This tool is use to move the selected items one location to another location, delete the selected items
and Resize the size of the text blocks, graphics and selected items. Pick the pointer tool and click over
the text, object, picture etc then drag inside or outside to resize (to increase or decrease) the size of the
object or picture.
Note:
Double click on the arrow tool or pointer tool to set the different types of PageMaker prefer menu
setting like measurement, Nepali typing, Graphic display, Guide options etc.
2. Text tool:
This tool is used for to make the text area by dragging our mouse in the document for type the text. Use
text tool to type, select, and edit text. Pick up the text tool and drag in the text area of the PageMaker
then start type. To change the font and any font effects choose this tool and select the text.
Note:
Double click on the text tool to set the different types of font setting like color, bold, underline font size
3. Rotate tool:
This tool is use to rotate the selected items in any direction or angle, as your wish. Pick up the rotate
tool and click over the any point of the object and rotate it in any angle as you need.
4. Crop tool:
This tool is use to crop or hide and show the unnecessary part of the pictures or graphics. Select crop
tool then drag the mouse inside the graphics area to hide the unnecessary part of graphic and if you
want to show the cropping sides then click over the part with crop tool and drag out side of the graphic.
Steps:
2. Chose the any one picture or image from the computer folder
6. Now drag your mouse on the picture from the selection point to cut the unwanted part of the picture.
5. Diagonal Line:
This tool is use to draw a diagonal or straight line. Use diagonal line tool to draw straight lines or
diagonal lines in any direction. Click over the diagonal line tool and drag on the page where you want to
draw.
This tool is use to draw a straight horizontal and perpendicular or vertical straight line. Click over the
perpendicular line tool and drag on the page, where you want to draw line.
7. Ellipse tool:
This tool is use to draw an ellipse or oval shape and circle. Pick up the ellipse tool and drag it in the page
where you need. If you want to create full circle then press shift key and drag it on the page.
This tool is use to draw a circle frame, ellipse frame or oval frame. Use ellipse frame tool to create a
circular or oval placeholder for text and graphics. Pick up the ellipse frame tool and drag it in the page,
where you need. If you want to create full circle then press the shift key and drag it.
9. Rectangle box:
This tool is use to draw a rectangle box or a square shape. Use rectangle tool to draw rectangles and
squares boxes. Pick up the rectangle box tool and drag the mouse where you want to draw the
rectangles if you press the shift key at the drawing time the rectangle become square.
This tool is use to draw a polygon (a figure of more than four lines) shape. Use polygon tool to draw
basic polygons. Pick up the polygon tool and drag on the page. If you want to change the polygon shape
then double click on the tool. Polygon setting dialog box will appear from this dialog box set the polygon
shape and click over the ok button.
This tool is use to found or move page or document. Use hand tool to scroll the page or to preview and
test hyperlinks. Pick up the hand tool and drag the page, as you want to move or press the alt key and
drag mouse.
This tool is use to increase and decrease our document view size. Pick the zoom tool and click over the
any items, which you want to magnify or reduce. To decrease document view size click your mouse with
holding “Ctrl” key.
Use rectangle frame tool to create a rectangular placeholder for text and graphics. Pick up the rectangle
frame tool and drag anywhere of the page and type text in side the rectangle box. If you press the shift
key at the drawing time the rectangle become square.
Steps:
13. After completing the border press ctrl + A from keyboard to select all
In the PageMaker there are 3 types of control palette. To hide and show the control palette click on the
window menu the click on the hide / show control palette option or to show and hide the control
palette of text press Ctrl +’. They are as following:
Character:
1. Font button: This button is used to change the font face click over the font button then choose any
font face as you need.
2. Font Size: This button is used to change the font size as you like Click over the font size button and
choose any size as you need.
3. Track: This option is used to change the font track as Normal, loose, very loose tight and very tight
4. Kerning option: This button is used to increase or decrease the character spacing horizontally in 0.01
ranges.
5. Normal (Ctrl +Shift + Space): To change the font style into normal.
a. Select the font which style you want to change into normal.
6. Bold (Ctrl + Shift + B): This button is used to change the normal font into bold (blackness).
a. Select the font and click over the bold button or press Ctrl + Shift + B.
7. Italic (Ctrl + Shift + I): This option is used to change the normal text into italic.
a. Select the font and click over the italic button or press Ctrl + shift + I.
8. Reverse (Ctrl +Shift+ V): This button is used to change the font in to white color.
a. Select the text and choose the Reverse button or press the Ctrl + Shift + V.
9. Strikethrough (Ctrl + Shift + /): This tool is used to draw a horizontal line through the middle of the
selected text.
a. Select the text and click over the streak thru button or press the Ctrl + Shift+ /.
10. Small caps: This option is used to change to selected font caps as small, capital and little grater
capital.
a. Select the font and click over the small caps button.
11. Superscript / Subscript: This button is used to change the normal text in to supper and sub script (the
text appear little upper then normal text is called supper script and the text which appear little below
the normal text is called sub script).
a. Select the text, which you want to change in to supper script or sub script.
b. Then click over the supper script or sub script button, as you need.
12. Leading button: This button is used to change the text leading (leading is the vertical space between
two lines)
13. Horizontal Scale: This option is used to change the character width size, as you need.
14. Baseline shift option: This button is used to move the selected text little below or above the normal
line or specify the vertical position of text relative to the baseline
a. Select the text and click over the up and down baseline button.
Paragraph
Align text:
A. Align Left (Ctrl + Shift + L): Change the text aligns text left edge of the text evenly. The left alignment
text is commonly used in personalized letter informal news and body text in many books.
B. Align center (Ctrl + Shift + C): This alignment is used to position the text or paragraph in the center of
the page or between the left and right edge of the page. This alignment is basically used to heading for
newsletter and brochure and heading of book.
C. Align Right (Ctrl + Shift + R): This alignment is used to position the text or paragraph on the right edge
of the page it is basically used for to write date and time and so on.
This alignment is used to justify (adjust the vertical text of both side of the paragraph) the paragraph
edge.
Steps:
a. Select the paragraph and choose the align style as you need. From the control plate tool or from the
Type menu choose alignment or press shortcut key.
E. First indent: Specify the amount of indent for the first sentence in a paragraph.
F. Space-before and space-after options: Specify the amount of space to insert above or below the
selected paragraphs.
G. Grid-size option: Specify the point size of the text grid to use when Align to Grid option is on.
Steps:
a. Select the paragraph and from the control panel tool & click on these button as you need.
Position option: This button is used to displays the X and Y position of the ruler, where the object is
located.
Sizing option: Specifies the width and height of the selected object we can change the size of the object
by changing the number of this button.
Rotating option: This button is used to Rotates the selected object around the reference in different
degree as you specify.
Skewing option: Skews objects horizontally -85 to 85 degrees in relation to the selected reference point.
Horizontal-reflecting button: Reflects the selected object vertically, and then rotates the object 180
degrees so it appears reflected horizontally.
To show and hide color palette click on the window menu choose hide / show color command or
press Ctrl + J from keyboard.
Steps:
Steps:
3. Press ctrl + J.
4. Click on ok button.
Steps:
4. Click on ok button.
6. Now drag your mouse on the picture from the selection point.
Steps:
Note: If star shape is not full filled by the picture position your pointer tool on the selection point and
drag your mouse to full fill the star shape by picture.
File menu:
This option is used to open the exiting publication file, which we have already saved.
Recent publications:
This command lists the last eight PageMaker publications you opened and saved where from you can
directly open publication which you want to open.
Revert:
Removes all changes to the active document or publication since you last save it or removes the entire
unsaved document from our active document.
Steps:
1. Create your document and draw any object then save it.
This option allows us to import text, graphics, and spreadsheet or database files into the active
publication, which are created in other program.
Steps:
6. Drag the mouse over the page where you want to put.
Acquire:
This acquire command allows us to select twain image (such as a scanner) and to take image directory
from the source and place them in PageMaker.
Steps:
1. Join your scanner and insert the image into the scanner.
3. Then save dialog box will appear. Type the file name and choose directory where you want to save.
7. Then after a few second when your image will appear in full size then select it and click on the scan
button.
8. Finally when scanning finish then drag the mouse on the page.
Export: The export command is used to save the elements of your PageMaker document is one of these
formats as an adobe portable document, HTML, picture and text format.
2. From file menu choose Export then its any items. And follow the steps, as you need.
Document setup (Ctrl + Shift + P): This option is used to set the document after creating document with
out affecting that document. And we can use this command to create a document as default. For more
see the steps of "creating new documents" topic.
Preference (ctrl + K): See the "DISPLAY AND CHANGING THE RULER MEASURMENT" topic.
If ruler is not displayed in the document window you can active them by pressing Ctrl+ R or from the
view menu select show/hide Ruler. The default measurement system for the ruler in inches you can
change the any of several system choices.
1. From the FILE MENU choose PREFERENCE GENERAL to display the preference dialog box or double
click on the pointer tool.
2. Then choose the measurement unit and click over the ok button.
b. Decimal inch: The ruler display by 10 tick marks where the page view allows to the inch and values
are created in decimal.
c. Millimeters: 25.4 millimeters = 1 inch.(it is the best measurement to cerate any design in
PageMaker.
d. Picas: There are 12 pointes to the pica and 6 picas to the inch.
e. Cicero: A Cicero's is slightly larger then a pica there is 5.58 Cicero's in to an inch.
Link manager:
The link manager command lets you view or modify links for single and multiple objects through out a
publication.
Steps:
8. Click on ok button.
Document setup:
Lets you to change the setting for a publication first defined when you choose new such as page size,
margins, number of pages page numbering and applied to the document master page.
Print (ctrl + P)
This command Prints a publication or book on a printer or to a disk as a postscript (letter) file. The
printing options available depend on the printer you are using.
Preference
General (ctrl + K)
This command controls various setting that applies to publication wide behavior such and viewing text
and graphics.
Layout menu:
Sort pages:
Lets you move pages from one position to another in the active publication by arranging thumbnail
representation of your pages and PageMaker reorder and renumbers your pages based on the changes
you make.
Steps:
4. Drag the selection page or publication to the another location where you want
Lets you go to the next page in the sequence (step by step) of pages you have viewed since you opened
a publication and lets you return to the previous page. This option is used to go back and forward of the
page.
Column guides:
This command is display the column guides dialog box that lets you inter the number of column for a
page. The column guides command automatically creates equal width between the column you can
change this width by clicking the column guided and drag them. Specify the number of columns and the
amount of space between the columns on the page.
Steps:
4. Enter the number of columns how many columns you want to insert columns on the pages and the
space you want to insert between columns.
5. Click on ok button.
Copy Master Guide:
Removes your column’s guide lines and makes like master page.
Steps:
Auto flow:
When checked text flows into available columns until there’s no more text to place page are added to
the end to the publication it necessary or This command is used to set the auto flow the text in the page
when you click on the page. If you tick in this command you need not to drag the mouse in each page
although you have massage more then on page.
Steps:
This command lets you to turn in another page or master page in the active publication. This option is an
easy way to go the specify page by jumping at once from any page.
Steps:
4. In this dialog box type the number of page where you want to go.
This option is allows us to insert the pages in your active file after or before the current page as you
specify. Let you add the page to a publication before or after the current page.
Steps:
2. Then its dialog box will appear in this dialog box type the number of page how much you want to
insert.
3. Then choose after or before option finally click over the insert button.
Remove page:
This command lets you to delete the designed range of page numbers in a publication including the text
and graphics on those pages.
Steps:
3. Type the range of pages how many pages you want to remove.
4. Click on ok button.
Edit menu:
Paste multiple:
This command lets you to make duplicate an object within a publication either by coping and pasting it
using drag and drop or by using the more powerful multiple paste features.
TIPS: Use edit > paste multiple to paste an object copied from one page on the page to which it is
pasted. Make sure the vertical and horizontal offsets are set to zero when you click on ok in the paste
multiple dialog box.
Steps:
1. Draw any object (like line or anyone)
5. Now set the pasting properties (how many object you want to paste and ser the space between tow
object in this dialog box)
6. Click on ok button.
Insert object:
This option is use to insert an object from another application into the current publication or PageMaker
which is not available in PageMaker. Lets you insert an OLE object server application in which you create
an object which you create an object which is then pasted as an ole-embed object into the current
publication.
Steps:
4. Click on ok button.
Edit story
Opens the story editors to show the story currently selected or opens a new story window if no text is
selected it is on / off command or this command is used to edit the mistake spelling and give the
suggestion as possible spelling. When you choose this command you switch to the story view and you
can see only on story at a time.
Steps:
1. Click on edit menu.
4. Press Ctrl + E.
a. Type the document and from the edit menu choose story.
c. From this page choose utility menu then choose spelling or press Ctrl + L then its dialog box will
appear.
d. In this dialog box click over the start button then it will show the possible correct spelling.
e. From this list of possible spelling list choose correct spelling and click over the replace button.
f. Finally close the dialog box and from the edit menu choose edit layout option or press Ctrl + E.
TYPE MENU
Font
Size
Leading
Sets the space measured in points between consecutive (coming one after another) type, leading can be
selected for a range of text. Use other command to set leading values ranging from zero to thirteen
hundred (1-1300) points.
Steps:
Expert tracking:
This option allows you to apply size, dependent letter spacing over a range of text instead of adjusting
the spacing between pairs of letters by using the sub command like loose, very loose, tight, normal etc
Steps:
Horizontal scale:
Lets you control the proportional width of characters for a selected range of text.
Use the other commands to specify a custom width (from 5% to 250%) for the selected text or the next
the typed
Steps:
Steps:
5. Now set the different types of font setting like color, bold, italic, underline, horizontal scale, leading
etc.
Paragraph (Ctrl + M)
Sets the paragraph level attributes for a single paragraph for text placed into PageMaker.
Steps:
5. Now set the paragraph setting like left, right, center, justify, before, after etc.
6. Click on ok button.
This command open the indents tabs dialog box to set tab stops for your document. You can also set the
first line, left and right indents and paragraph by tab setting from this dialog box. You can use indent
tabs for a selected range of text.
Steps:
1. Type the text.
Step:
3. Press ctrl + I.
6. Click on ok button.
Hyphenation:
The trade of between hyphenation and spacing in justified text in that the closer you come to ideal
specify between letters and words Or This option is used to insert the hyphenation (a short line) at the
right edge of the text in the end of the line.
Steps:
4. Click on ok button.
Style:
This command displays the style menu listing the default or custom style established for the current
document.
Steps:
2. From the type menu choose style then it list will appear.
This command is used to create a new style, change existing style or remove style or Lets you create and
edit paragraph style for the typed text in PageMaker.
Steps:
3. To create a new style click over the new button of this dialog box.
4. Then next dialog box will appear in this dialog box type the style name and click over the Character,
Tabs, paragraph, and hyphenation etc button.
5. Set the style as you like and click over the ok button.
6. If you want to edit, remove any style, choose the style then click over that button and change as you
like.
Or
1. Press Ctrl + B.
7. Click on ok button.
8. Again click on ok button.
Element menu:
This option is used to set the fill and stroke attributes for a selected object.
Steps:
3. From the Element menu choose fill and stroke or Press Ctrl + U from keyboard then its dialog box will
appear from key board.
4. From this dialog box choose fill, stroke style and color opacity and other properties as you need.
5. Click on ok button.
Fill:
This option lets you Fill a pattern (specially black or white color) when drawing a rectangle, ellipse, or
polygon. A fill pattern can also be applied to a selected box or oval after drawing.
Steps:
1. From the Element menu choose fill option then choose any patterns as you need
Or
1. Draw any object and select it & click on the element menu chooses fill then any patterns.
2. Stroke:
This option is specify the line width, line style and pattern for the rectangle, ellipse, or polygon tool. You
can specify other line weights in one-tenth of point increments, up to 800 points.
Steps:
1. From the element menu choose stroke and any width, any style of line or pattern.
1. drag the object the select it then from the element menu choose stroke then any width of line and
line style.
2. If you want to increase or decrease the line width the click over the custom option the type the line
width as you need.
Frame:
Lets you attach the text and graphics to a frame set attributes for the object.
Steps:
This option is used to separate the content from the selected frame.
Steps:
2. Click on the element menu Choose frame then separate content or press the Ctrl + F.
This option lets you specify alignment and indents of text inside a frame.
Steps:
1. From the Element menu choose frame the frame option or press Alt + Ctrl + F.
2. Then its dialog box will appear. From this dialog box set alignment and margins of the text from the
frame.
4. If you have already typed the text the make active the frame then follow the same steeps.
This option is used to change the any active object into the frame.
Steps;
2. From the Element menu choose frame option the change to frame or press Ctrl + Shift + Alt +F.
This option is used to convert the fame into the object or graphic.
Steps:
1. Select the frame and from the element menu choose frame option the change to graphic or press Ctrl
+ Shift + Alt + F.
F. Delete content:
Steps:
Arrange
This command is use to set the selected object in front, back etc side of the stacking order.
Bring to front (Ctrl+ Shift +])
This command is used to move the selected object to the front of all over lapping.
Steps:
3. Click on the element menu Choose arrange then choose bring to front option or press Ctrl +Shift+
] key from keyboard.
This command is used to move the selected object to the front of any overlapping.
Steps:
3. Click on the element menu Choose arrange then choose bring forward option or press Ctrl +] key from
keyboard.
This command is used to move the selected object to the back of any object.
Steps:
3. Click on the element menu Choose arrange then choose send backward option or press Ctrl+ [ Key
from keyboard.
This command is used to move the selected object to the back of all objects.
Steps:
1. Draw more than two objects and overlap it.
3. Click on the element menu Choose arrange then choose send to back option or press Ctrl+ Shift + [
Key from keyboard.
You can align objects in relation to each other and then distributes the space between the objects
evenly.
Steps:
6. Click on ok button.
Lets you determine how text flows when it encounters (near) a graphic object or this command let’s you
determine now text flow when it in counter a graphic object in three part. It can cover the graphic
object, wrap around the sides of a rectangle shapes or wrap around the sides of a regular shape.
Steps:
This option combines two or more selected object in to a group so that the objects are treated as a unit
or This command helps us to group our drawing object which acts as a single object.
Steps:
Steps:
Lock (Ctrl + L)
You can lock individual objects in place in order to help preserve the design of your pages through all
stages of productions; you can not change the attributes of all locked object. This command is used to
lock the object or text in the same place that the text or object can not move.
Steps:
2. Make active your required text or object which you want to lock.
3. Go to the element menu and choose lock option or press Ctrl + L from keyboard.
Unlock (Ctrl + Alt + L)
Provides the change of does not affect the objects' size or position or this command is used to unlock
the locked text, or object.
Steps:
Mask (Ctrl + 6)
Masking is a way of covering of an object so that only a portion of it appears through a shape drawn
with rectangle ellipse or polygon tool.
Steps:
This command lets you undo a mask by selecting the masking object or unmask the selected object.
Steps:
1. Select the mask object.
Polygon setting:
Lets you change the shape of polygon. You can change the number of sides (up to 100) and the degree
to which sides are set to from a star.
Steps:
5. Set polygon number in this dialog box how many polygon corners you want to insert.
6. Click on ok button.
Round corner:
Lets you change the shape of rounded corner you can change the way of the selected rectangle box.
Steps:
5. Choose any one round corner which you want to set round corner.
Non printing:
This command helps us Designates (represent) a selected object as non-printing so that it does not print.
Steps:
Utilities Menu:
Balance columns:
Sometimes you must balance the columns on a page to be of equal size so that their top and bottom
edge align. This command is used to set the column balance some time you want to columns on a page
to be of equal size, so that their top and bottom edge, align if you have used text blocks you contain the
text PageMaker can automatically calculate the average length of columns and their resize them to that
lunch.
Steps:
1. First of all make more than two columns from layout menu by columns command.
7. Click on ok button.
This command is use to set the bullet and numbering to the selected text.
Steps:
5. Now set the bullet and numbering if you want to change the bullet style then click over the edit
button and choose bullets.
Change case:
PageMaker provides different types of case attributes such as Normal, upper, lower case, Title case,
Sentence case etc.
Steps:
6. Click on ok button.
Drop cap:
Formats a letter word or selected text with a large dropped capital letter
Steps:
Key line:
You can create the border automatically by drawing a box around the object.
Steps:
2. Select it.
7. Click on the attributes to open the fill and line dialog box.
8. Then set fill and line attributes such as line, weight and fill color.
Word counter:
This command helps us to show the information of our active document such as lines, words, paragraph,
letters, sentences etc.
Steps:
5. Click on ok button.
Steps:
4 Apply heading on the text which you want to insert as a table of content from style (ctrl +B)
8. Click on ok button.
Index entry:
Steps:
4. Select the word in which you want to set the index entry.
5. Press ctrl + y
7. Click on ok button.
You can change the page size view at any time. To increase / decrease the size of your page
select the view menu to display the view submenu. Then choose on of the following page view option.
a. Fit in the window (Ctrl+0): - Show the full size of the page.
d. 75% Size (Ctrl+7): - Display the body copy clearly the full width of 8 inch is visible.
e. Actual Size (Ctrl+1): - show an exact one to one representation of the gage. Use this
perspective when adjusting lines, text to graphics or when typing text on the page.
g. 400% Size (Ctrl+4): - Again double the size of the page at this prospective, you are seeing less
a 2-inch area of the page.
h. Zoom in /Out (Ctrl+ +/-): - Increase or decrease the entire shown screen.
i. Ctrl + mouse + space: - Growth/Shrinks the part of the screen, which you define by
mouse pointer.
RULER:
The ruler gives accuracy in laying out a page as you over the junction of the two rulers (upper- left
corner of the document screen) hold down the mouse then drag it in your work area.
If you want to pull down the vertical or horizontal ruler on the work area then drag any vertical or
horizontal ruler on the ruler junction.
If you want to lock the ruler zero point, from the view menu choose zero lock option at through you can
change the zero unlock the zero point from the view menu.
Guidelines are a basic building block of page maker's design and layout. You can use as many of them as
you need and each page can contain a unique arrangement of guideline.
a. From vertical or horizontal any ruler boundary, hold down the mouse pointer and drag on the page
(you see the blue line on the color monitor) and fix the guideline position.
b. If you want to fix guidelines on the entire page, then first select the master page button left of the
screen (Rl) & set Guidelines.
a. Some time you may want to see guidelines, other time you might want to hide them, the
view menu control the display of guidelines.
b. Once the guidelines are positioned correctly, you want to lock them in place, select the view menu
and choose lock guides. A check mark means the guide are locked. Select the optional again to remove
the check mark and unlock the guide.