guides

[mikecox_]

I just lost one of my horizontal guides! I had 2 them something happened and I lost one.

I tried the Edit options but even when I set the Top and Bottom radio buttons I always end up with just 1.

I zoomed out to 25%, thinking the missing guide was out of sight, but there appears to be only 1.

I even tried rebooting my computer, but no luck.

[Stan Jones]

Mike,

Can you provide a screenshot?

Stan

[mikecox_]

Not much to see, just one missing guide. I reduced the image to 25% to make sure the guide wasn't off the screen.

[Stan Jones]

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. I have no ideas. The only way I can see this happening is an accidental deletion. And I think that would be difficult to delete just one by mistake.

Stan

[mikecox_]

Yeah, I agree. Seems like it should be impossible to delete a guide, but I suppose there are times when you only want r two or three guides on the screen. That makes what the guy with the complicated name said about guides that get dragged off the screen getting deleted.

But if that's a thing why is getting them back such a mystery?

[Giddy_personality5D25]

Just in case, by mistake if you would have clicked and dragged above the rulers, or even outside the stage size, it gets deleted. 

[mikecox_]

I hadn't thought about the possibility that sometimes you only want 2 or 3 guides. Why is getting them back such a mystery?  Why isn't the Guides icon a toggle, that returns all 4 by guides by default?

I'm still missing a guide. do you have any idea how I get it back?

[Stan Jones]

If it's a guide you made, View -> Show Rulers, then drag from the ruler down to the point you want the guide.

I never use templates; is that how you got the guides to begin with?

Stan

[mikecox_]

I haven't experimented with Guide Presets yet, I'm just trying to get the default guides back.

[Stan Jones]

The only default guides I see are safe margins, and they do not correspond to your screenshot. And the ones I see are not multi-colored. Are these part of an imported template, mogrt, or similar?

Which command are you using to turn them on?

Stan

[mikecox_ · Accepted solution]

I've answered my Question.  All I needed to do was View/ add guides. 

I did that and added Ver and Horz guides; now I have my 4 guides back.  They will be my default.

[Stan Jones]

Glad you got it sorted.

[Giddy_personality5D25]

If you want the same guides to be used frequently that has customized position, you can export the guidelines that you have created. Go to View --> Guide Templates --> Save Guide as template. Once done, you can go to the same menu option to select the guide that you have created as template and re-use the same.

[mikecox_]

Just need to get the Default set back