Using rulers and grids to lay out pages

Use rulers and grids as visual guides for drawing, positioning, or resizing elements in the Document window's Design view.

Rulers can appear on the left and top borders of the page, marked in pixels, inches, or centimeters.

You can make page elements automatically snap to the grid as you move them, and change the grid or control the snapping behavior by specifying grid settings. Snapping works whether or not the grid is visible.

To change ruler settings, do one of the following:

To toggle rulers on and off, select View > Rulers > Show.
To change the origin, drag the ruler-origin icon at the upper left corner of the Design view of the Document window anywhere on the page.
To reset the origin to its default position, select View > Rulers > Reset Origin.
To change the unit of measure, select Pixels, Inches, or Centimeters from the View > Rulers submenu.

To show or hide the grid:

Select View > Grid > Show Grid.

To enable or disable snapping:

Select View > Grid > Snap to Grid.

To change grid settings:

Select View > Grid > Grid Settings.
The Grid Settings dialog box appears.
Set options as desired.
For more information, see Setting the Grid Settings dialog box options.
Click OK.

Using rulers and grids to lay out pages

To change ruler settings, do one of the following:

To show or hide the grid:

To enable or disable snapping:

To change grid settings:

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