How do I add guidelines around my InDesign page?

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January 29, 2022
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Can anyone help me please, I don't know how to add guidelines around my page.

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Correct answer Barb Binder

Hi Billy:

You are in Preview mode. Choose View > Screen Mode > Normal.

~Barb

Barb Binder

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi Billy:

You are in Preview mode. Choose View > Screen Mode > Normal.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Billy22895875niw3Author

Participant

Thank you.
it has now worked

Luke Jennings3

Community Expert

In addition to the good information above, if you don't see rulers around your page, go to View> Show rulers. You can click and drag on the horizontal & vertical ruler to add guide lines (that do not print or export). If you want to add an actual border around your objects, you do this by adding a stroke, Window> Stroke. You can change the color in the swatches panel.

Billy22895875niw3Author

Participant

Thank you for the help but it hasn't worked.

I want to get guidelines around the photos, text and the page. If I open up another indesign document it has the lines, like so.

How do I get this on my document.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

There are various kinds of guidelines. You can choose column and bleed guides when you set up your document and under Layout > Margins and Guides and in Preferences there are Grids which includes the Baseline Grid. Also have a look at View > Extras and View > Grids and Guides. You can pull out guides via the rulers.

You can hide them via View > Screen Mode and toggle between Normal and Preview using the keyboard shortcut "w" (no quote marks). I always press Esc before hitting "w" to ensure that nothing is selected so as to prevent unwanted "w"s being inserted!