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To achieve a truly professional appearance it is important to be able to position objects such as text frames or pictures accurately onto the page. If a picture is placed above a text frame but they do not quite line up then the appearance of a document can be spoiled. Two tools are usually provided to help you position objects accurately. They are guidelines and grids.
Guidelines are lines which are placed onto the page to help the user position objects. The user can place guidelines anywhere on the page. Any object placed near to a guideline will "jump" or "snap" to the guideline. i.e. the object will move to line itself up exactly with the guideline. The guidelines will appear on the screen but will not appear on the final printed page.
A grid of points can be placed over a page. The points are placed at regular intervals specified by the user, for example every one centimetre. Whenever an object is placed on the page it will jump to the nearest point on the grid.
GCSE ICT Companion 04 - (C) P Meakin 2004