One of the challenges in creating an attractive publication is to line up text frames properly. Guides act as visual markers to help you align text frames on a page or on facing pages. When you open a folded or bound publication - such as a newsletter, book, or brochure - the facing pages are the left and right pages separated by the fold or binding.

Publisher 2000 has two types of guides: layout guides and ruler guides. Use layout guides to align text frames on all pages in your publication. Use ruler guides to align text frames on a single page or on a pair of facing pages. You can add multiple layout and ruler guides to a publication.

For this procedure, your publication must have at least three pages with text frames on the facing pages.

To align text frames on facing pages using a ruler guide

1. In your publication, click Two-Page Spread on the View menu.
2. Go to the facing pages that contain the text frames you want to align.
3. Click Show Boundaries and Guides on the View menu.
4. Click Snap to Guides on the Tools menu.
5. Click Rulers on the View menu.
6. Hold down SHIFT, position the mouse pointer over the horizontal ruler until you see the Adjust pointer, and then drag the Adjust pointer until the new guide is where you want it.
   Repeat this step to create additional ruler guides.
7. Position the mouse pointer over a text frame until you see the Mover and then drag the text frame until the top or bottom of the frame snaps to the appropriate guide.
   Repeat this step to align other text frames.

For More Information

For help using ruler and layout guides, click Microsoft Publisher Help on the Help menu, and then type guides in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab.