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Orientation Click the portrait
dynamically with the dimensions you enter in Page Size. When Height is the larger value,
the portrait icon is selected. When Width is the larger value, the landscape icon is selected.
Clicking the deselected icon switches the Height and Width values.
3 In the Margins and Columns section of the New Document dialog box, specify options
and click OK. The options are the same as those in the Layout > Margins and Columns
dialog box; see "Changing margin and column settings" on page
Looking at the document window
In a document window, structural areas of a page are marked by the following default
colors:
Black lines describe the size of each page in a spread. A thin drop shadow helps distin-
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guish a spread from its pasteboard. You can't change the color of these lines.
Magenta lines are margin guides.
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Violet lines are column guides.
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Lines of other colors are ruler guides which, when present, appear in the layer color
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when selected; see
Column guides appear in front of margin guides. When a column guide is exactly in front
of a margin guide, it hides the margin guide.
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A. Spread B. Page size C. Margin guides D. Column guides
To customize the colors of column and margin guides:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Guides (Windows and Mac OS 9), or InDesign Preferences
> Guides (Mac OS 10.1).
2 Under Margins or Columns, choose a preset color in the Color menu; you can also
choose Other, or double-click the color box to specify the color in the system color picker.
3 Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
You can change the on-screen color of your paper by double-clicking the Paper color
in the Swatches palette (choose Window > Swatches). The Paper color appears on-
screen only, and does not affect output; it is intended only to simulate designing for
nonwhite paper.
Changing document settings
Changing options in the Document Setup dialog box affects every page in the document.
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