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Menu Customization

Now we're going to show you some menu customization underneath your edit menu at the very bottom of the edit menu. We have this thing called menus, and what this does is this allows us to go we in, and this allows us to actually control our menu functionality of what we can see and what we want to see your highlight in a particular document or in a particular application. So if I go into the menus here, this calls up every single one of my men use. You can see my file at it type layout, which is my file edit type layout. Object here and inside those we have all of the functions and features that are going to be within, in this case, the file menu. There's certain things that you may want to highlight in a certain color, so you go under the menu and it's like, you know, I keep going past certain things. I could go in and under the open menu I could highlight that has a certain color. So I do read, and then when I go under open, it will be in red. I can also turn on and turn off the visi...

bility of certain items. If you're using and design and they're certain functions and features that you're never going to dio, you know, it's like, you know what? I never go in and use the check in. If I turn that off, it will simply just take that out of my menu and clean them up. You can always go back and turn them on right there. Not a problem. But you can label these as well so that you can highlight certain items as you go through. Every single menu has that you can turn those on. Turn those off simple is conveyed. I do that every once in a while if I've got something and I have to keep going under the menu, and it's like not near the top. So I shut off a few of the other ones that I just don't use. I have shortcuts for them, and I can do all of my application menus, but I can do all of my panel menus as well. So all of my panels here when I click on Middle Cheese Grader, I have all this to be able to go in and control how these things work and, yeah, so pages panel right there. So if I go to make pages panel menu, these are all the fly out items that I have on there, and I can highlight certain things or turn certain things off so that I don't have those items or options readily available for me. So menu customization is something that can get saved when you go ahead and choose your workspace right there. That's not very. It's not something that people commonly do, but you can certainly edit those. What makes it more interesting? I just saved. That's you see, when I go under my open menu here, be ableto I guess I didn't turn that read, but I could have. Keyboard shortcuts are also under the Edit menu. Keyboard shortcuts. When you begin using certain functions and features, not everything in in design has a short cut, so you have to create your own something that you're going to use time and time again. So if I go into the application menu file menu edit menu layout menu, if I go to the layout menu and there's certain items that I want to use and those particular items do not have a shortcut associated with it. If I click on an item down here under current shortcuts, it tells me what shortcuts are with that. So if I'm dealing with something here where I want to set up, say, ruler guides, air open, table of contents styles, this has no shortcut. And I want to apply a shortcut to this particular menu item. I'm using it all the time. I don't want to keep going under the menu item every single time and accessing it. I can put in a shortcut and a shortcut generally requires a modifier. So we have our command key or option key or shift key and, in some rare cases, the control key. So if I want to go, we in and say I want Teoh create a shortcut for my table of contents styles and I see okay, option command T. I put it in there and it says Okay, this current shortcut is assigned to something else and in design, and if you use this shortcut here, it's going to override this one to call up the type and tables, and it's like, Oh, I don't want to do that. Let me do my shift option Command T and I do that and it's like, great This particular shortcut is not being used so you can apply this to this particular element. And so I put that in there and I assign I click on the sign there and it's going to say, OK, you have a certain set of, you know, shortcuts. Do you want to modify this? And you're like, Yes, I do. So I can say that, OK, and it's going to allow me to say this as a new set of shortcuts. And so it doesn't overwrite the existing shortcuts and in design, So you're not going to mess up anything when you do this, it creates a new set of shortcuts. Once I do that and I click OK, if I go under my layout menu now, I can see there is my table of contents styles, and there is my shortcut. So if you forget the shortcut, it's there in the menu because it's very common you created, and you're like, Oh, what was that shortcut? It shows you right there. Now you create these shortcuts and you have this whole wonderful list of shortcuts and then you decide to go to move to a different computer. And so you've got your shortcuts right here, and you want to be able to use your shortcuts someplace else. So under my keyboard shortcuts, I can go in, and I can actually call up my list of shortcuts here. This is awesome. So you ever gone online and see those big posters of shortcuts that you pay 20 or $30 for? You know, How did they get them? They go into your shortcuts here, they say, Show the set right there. And here is your entire set of shortcuts, which you can copy, paste, format, print out big laminate and sell online for 20 or $30. People are amazed. It's like, Oh, my gosh, how do they know all these shortcuts? Let me tell you folks, they don't. It's right here for you on all the adobe applications. Have that? So if you ever want to take those with you, you can certainly see. And it's pretty awesome right there. So you've got those shortcuts right there. And I That's how I actually grabbed my shortcuts in sets. And so if I create a new set of shortcuts for clients or something. I'll print out their new set so they have a little cheat sheet for them. So it's very specific to their needs and their workflow. Great way to do it, Nice toe have so you don't have to feel stuck with the existing shortcuts right here. Just keep in mind that they'll be your shortcuts and you go to somebody else's machine and they won't necessarily have them until you plug them in. A shared also apply to other preferences. Like, for instance, well, just really any of the other preferences when you switch machines with this particular one, we actually have the preferences saved right within design. But every single application has Preference is not as easy to get to. We can't just go through one of the menus here and get them. You'll have to go into the user preferences into the in design folder and bulldoze. But yes, all the preferences air save some place that you have somewhat readily accessible information for sure. Okay, but they're there now all the preferences or save some place. And if you're looking for a set of obscure preferences, online is great. Somebody's already figured it out. Where to grab that. So you're going from one computer to another and you're gonna be working there for two months and just want to grab your preferences. Just go online and find out how to move your preferences from one to another. And it's a really simple thing. It's funny. I was literally writing that down as a question the moment that you answered it, because Melissa and I used to different computers and sometimes flip back and forth. So that's perfect. Yeah, part of this would work right for you is to both. You set up your own workspace on it as well. So you just go through each other's work space, go through your workspace. Therefore, any preferences or any individuality that you program in is going to be captured when you capture the workspace, because when we go ahead and save the workspace, you'll notice When we do that, we can save the panel locations and menu customization. So all that stuff gets saved to your preferences and your liking right there. So once you create that there, then you've got both, and you could just switch back and forth, depending on your needs works out quite well. Okay. How we doing online there, Jim? Okay, Another question. Other questions Ask you earlier, and that just simply was You had touched on everything in in design, being either an object or type. And my question was, Is that hypothetically speaking? Let's say you're working on ah magazine layout and you've got a call out its text. But you want to be a different type and, you know, maybe put a box around it, that sort of thing. Would you rather design that sort of thing in design? And I'm sorry in illustrator, and then bring it into in design as an object, Or would you treat that as type within design? It all depends on what you're going for. If that button is going to be something stylized, you've got a pattern in it. You have done some manipulation to the type outside of just controlling the size of it, or you have some specific border or you want to create some initial effect. And there's lots of items associated with that button. Multiple elements rather than just a simple box with color. So if we had just a box with color in it right here. And there's my box and just put type in there that had been created in design. If it's got an interesting shape, a nice texture of Phil, something fancy going on with it. Sure, you can design that an illustrator, place it into a container and then bring it right in because that's not really in designs function. If you want to do something really special in creative, we can go ahead and do that with type. We can place images, but illustrators, mawr long lines for that. I think this is an object in most cases. Absolutely thank you certainly is. Okay, so going through a few other items with the interface that we have here as well, So we've gone through the menus. We've gone through our control bar tools, everything else. Next thing is when we have multiple files open A couple versions ago, adobe went with a single floating window with multiple tabs, and these tabs control what it is that we see inside or floating window under the window menu. You can always go down to the very bottom of your window and see every single file that you have open same is true and photo shop in an illustrator. And if I have 10 files open, I may not have enough room across the top for all the towns, but I can go through here and I can find what it is that I'm looking for as well. Also, if I want Teoh cycle through these, um, can't do that in design. You do it in photo shop. You can click through all these items right here. If you click on that little X, you are going to close that tab. If you click on the little red dot right here, here, going to close all of them Quick little note here. So we have our expand button, which is the green on our minimize, which is the yellow people always ask, you know, how do I know if my file has been saved or not? Simple. If you have that little red dot in there in that corner, that means your file has not been saved. I'm gonna save my file right now. Once it saved that red dot goes away. That's how you know if the file has been saved or not. Okay. Make any edit to your file right there. That red dot reappears by click save that red dot goes away. That's how you know. And I know several people are like, Oh, my gosh, I never knew we unceremoniously called at the blood clot. Okay? So, no, I mean, if that appears, then you know your file hasn't been saved. So this file I haven't done anything with, so it's fine when I draw something. It now indicates that it needs to be saved before it needs to be close with multiple files open as tabs up in our application bar, we have our arrange documents tab, and this allows us and this is the same is true. And the other adobe applications, We may have files that we want to see. We may want to drag something from one file to another. We may want to see everything on screen. If I use my arrangement, you I can arrange them in two up, three up, four up. However, I want Teoh. And what this will do is this will actually arrange them in two separate windows. All based on what it is that my arrangement is set up as if I have multiple windows Aiken tile everything into a grid structure. When I'm done, I can always go back and choose consolidate all. And that's going to put it all into one window with multiple tabs. You can also grab one of these tabs separately and drag it off into the free space to break them apart. And again under your arrange menu, you can float everything in windows, which will break everything out automatically or consolidate, which will bring them all back in so quick and easy ways. I know when this first came out, people like I'm used to having everything floating and bring in the front and send in the back and moving and shuffling all around. Now you could just cycle right through all of your open ones right there. And I want to say, Yeah, so that's gonna be command. Tilda is going Teoh cycle through all of your open windows? Yeah, it's different in Photoshop because control tab cycles through the windows because command tab cycles through all of your open applications on there. So Yep. So command Tilda is going to go through and bring you through all your open windows. Nice and easy, but a question sure this is from one of our guests, Um, does in design sink in the adobe cloud like other adobe APS. And can you save a lot of your settings up to the cloud and moving to different machines? That's a great question, and the answer is yes. That does sink everything in the cloud. In fact, when I launched this today because I'm the new user, it says, Do you want to sink everything with cloud? And you certainly can. So your settings will be up there in the cloud. Now, here's the one interesting thing people think that we're running. All of this in the cloud were not. The applications still exists on the hard drive. Everything's there like you've always had it before. The only difference with this, as opposed to your previous versions of software, is we don't have a serial number. We have a log in. That's it. So our user name and that's it. That's the only difference. We can save all of our files up to the cloud if you If you are part of the creative cloud and you own the Creative Cloud Suite, you have access to creative dot adobe dot com, which is a place that you can store all your files. Everybody has it, so all you do is go to creative dot adobe dot com. You log in with the same log in that requires you to log in for your creative cloud application, and you have something like 20 gigs of storage. They're really nice. Easy interface interface. Drop in drag and drop files right under the browser Automatic upload. Don't to do attachments or any fancy stuff. You can see a nice visual format and you can download everything. And that's what I used to transfer a lot of my files. So that's about the only cloud thing that we will have. But, yes, your preferences and your sink settings do exist in your account in the cloud, which you can have access to cool. Thank you certainly. Okay, so now that we've run through the entire interface here, a couple things that I want to show you with the very basics of guides and guides are going to be put on our page here and we can start up when we create a new document. We get our basic margins and column guides that we can set up, and what we're gonna do here is we're going to just do some very basic guides on our page margins, columns and then manual guides from a rulers. When we create a new file and I go under filed new and create a new file, I can then choose what preset size I want or any type of size put in orientation as well. And then the number of columns that I want to have on my page. So if I want a three column grid structure and I want margins, that air top right, left and bottom Aiken set those all how I want them and I can simply click. OK, and there's my layout. I've got my half inch margins all the way around, and I've got all of my columns right in there. If at any point something isn't correct and I want to change something about my documents set up, you don't have to close out of the file. Once you've created a new document and it's like, Oh, my orientation wasn't right. I needed to add something to it. Not a problem under the file menu. Under documents set up, we can go back and we can edit what we have previously built, and we can change that. No need to close out of it and start all over. So documents set up is going to allow us to change the size or the orientation of our page. Change other features, and we're going to get into a few of these other features here. But noticeably absent here in the document set up is our margins and columns. We created them when we created a new file, but they're not here when we go back under the file menu under the document set up to edit that. So if I change this change my size or my orientation and has changed the file, if I want to change my margins and columns that resides under the layout menu totally different so layout margins and columns by margins and columns, I can then go and change my margins if I want to. The number of columns on my page and I change those items right there simple and easy. Whenever I do columns, my columns are always going to be equally distributed based on my margins. If I have two columns, I will always have to equal columns, and they will always be equally distributed between my margins. I have four right now, so I can't go in and I can't set under my margins and columns that I would like margins to be a certain with or my columns to be a certain with if I want my columns to be two inches wide. I don't have that ability to do that, but I can move them manually. I know some people are like, really? So it's like a live tried You know, I've clicked on these things That's like, Well, maybe you're not clicking hard enough or you haven't shut this law column guides off under the view menu grids and guides. The default is that my column guides are locked, so I can't move my column guides around. They're always going to be equally distributed on the page based on the width of my page. If I go under view grids and guides and I unlocked my column guides, I can then take my move tool, and when they're unlocked, you notice when I hover over with my selection tool here, I get that little square telling me that I'm right where it needs to be, and I can move these all around. And if you want to know where they're being moved tool to pay attention to this little area right up here, Right there. When I grabbed my guides, you'll see that I get an actual measurements so I can drop those right where I want them to go. I can move these all around so that I can have an asymmetrical grid on my page all set up with my margins and columns. Pretty nice. If you want to return this back to the original so that my everything's going to be symmetrical, go back under your layout menu under margins and columns, and it says the number of columns air now custom. Just put in an absolute measurement. Say, like, I want four columns and it'll put everything right back to where it waas. So you unlock those under grids and guides. Unlock your column guides. They're locked by default when in design gets loaded. Now, next thing is, people love to put guides onto their page, and guides come from the rulers. Gotta have your rulers on so commander control are, or application bar rulers take your cursor. Click on any one of your horizontal or vertical rulers. Click and drag onto the page. When you drag onto the page, you have to the right of your cursor, a tool hint telling you exactly where the size are. The location of the guy. And many people try really hard to get it to snap exactly where you want to forget it. Okay, that's a nice little thing to get it someplace close, but don't worry about it. Pull your guide onto your page here, and then we're gonna go up into our control bar, and our control bar here will actually tell us when we click on that guide. The exact location on the page No more zooming into the ruler really close and saying, OK, it's close enough. Now put your guide on the page. Highlights your measurement here and type in what you want. If you want to 0.5. Hit 2. and hit return. There's your guide. If you want to do that again, drag it onto your page and this one. I now wanted five inches. I can say five inches if I want a vertical one. I drag it from my vertical ruler. There it is 2.5 inches right there. Now some people like to hoard guides, and you open up a file and there's 4000 guides the entire document. Easy way to get rid of guides. You can just click on a single guide, and it goes from light blue to medium blue, and you can hit, return or just delete, and it goes away. If you have multiple ones on the page here, you want to just clean everything up, right. Click on your ruler and just say, Get rid of all the guides. Any manually done guides here. No margins or columns, but any manually done. Guides pulled from your rulers will disappear. So Jared has this look on his face like, Oh my gosh, I mean, I spent 24 hours pulling guides away, and the answer is yes, at least. So here's an interesting thing. I can click with my selection tool on any guide in You're or Click and drag over them in design is smart enough, though. If I have an object on the page and something is filled with a color and I click and drag over everything. It will only select the object. It doesn't select the guide, so I don't move or you don't remove the guides. The only way I can actually manually select the guides is if I click and drag over with my selection tool and Onley. The guides are included in that selection. Onley. Then I can delete them or I can move them around. But if I have anything else selected as content on the page, my guides will not be selected. Question from Jimmy Schaffer. Yes, Jason. Do guides have snapping functions to them? And if so, can you take them off? Well, guides are nice and snappy and crunchy, and basically, when we put a guide on the page, it doesn't snap to anything. Okay, we can place the guides anywhere, but what I'm going to guess is what he's saying is when I put a guide someplace and I have an object on my page, can you go ahead and set that so that the object will snap guides in the The answer is yes, you can. And under the view menu, under grids and guides, we have the snap to guide function, which means when it gets to be a certain distance away from the guide. It will snap right to debt Guide kind of is a nice little, you know, week magnetism right there. So if you do not want it to snap to the guides and you want to freely move around without that little snap, you can turn that off so it will not snap to the guides, and then you can move it everywhere, and it's you won't be able to snap right to it. If you do like that, snap two guides, but you want to set the preference for that snap distance. You can go under your preferences, and I'm not quite sure where the actual snap to is because here the preferences, composition units and increments. Oh, probably grids and guides you think There you go, eso right here we have that, and there is a tolerance for the grid snapping. We'll have to find that because we can actually sent how far away in points the object can get to a guide before it snaps. And it's here someplace. Somebody in the chat room may know this because somebody always knows this kind of stuff, but it's in there file handling number of recent files will have to find that, but there is a way we can set that preference. So generally it's four points away. So within that gets there we have a question here. Yes, why would you want to snap something together? Well, snapping to the guide. So if I had multiple things on the page and I wanted to line them up, that's what the guy does for If I don't have my snap, two guides on what it could end up with is I could end up with a whole bunch of objects here that are not quite lined up with snap to guide. I don't have to get in really close. I can literally just take these objects and snap them right to the guide. Now you know everything is right in place. Nice. Absolutely. So that's the snap to guide feature. Some people like it, and in some cases it's definitely useful. Other times I want to put something exactly where I want to put it without any assistance on and two questions one. Are we gonna talk about smart guides? Absolutely not now, but we'll get to it correct. Once we start drawing containers this afternoon, Then we're gonna talk about snort smart guides and how they work. Perfect. And Eric Turner would like to know if you have a multi page document. Will the guides be seen across all pages or just on the page? You've dropped it on. In this case, there only be there on the page. We drop it on when we do master pages. Then if you apply them to the master page, whatever you put on the master page, you will then see throughout the documents so you can have it. Either way, If you want them page specific, you're gonna drag them onto just that page. Who wanted on all the pages? You put it on a master page, and therefore it applies to all of them. Certainly. So I'm gonna show you a couple things with guys here that will totally blow you away. I have a document, and I'm going to turn off my margins and columns here. And so I'm just gonna back it down to one column and I'm going to set my page set up to a weird size 17.75 and 9.25 high. Why? Because a client has said I need you to make a brochure, and it needs to be a, you know, four panel brochure, And it's going to be all equal size panels. And I need you to go in and divided out into all these equal panels. You could either design four separate individual pages that air that size. So you then break out your calculator and you figure out okay, you know, here's my page size 17.75 divided by four. Average size is going to be this size. Okay, here's the easy way. I'm gonna do it with one whole page because it's gonna print out on one piece of paper. So I'm gonna print out our set it up as one page. I'm gonna drag my guide onto my page here. I don't care where that guide is. I'm gonna go ahead and do the math and did you know, in design has a built in calculator? I know. After reading the in design book today, I just found out all these features. Well, no, not really. Um, so just let you know. I've been Adobe certified expert in design ever since. Like CS to I think it Waas. Yeah. Fantastic feature. I want to divide this page up into four equal increments. Awesome. Put first guide on the page here. I have no idea where it's supposed to go. I'm gonna go into my position right here, and I'm going to type in 17.75 and I'm going to say, divided by four the math right there. I said if I hit return, so there's the 1st 1 OK, 4.4375 I didn't know what it was. Didn't make any difference either. In design, does the math add, Subtract, multiply, divide. You simply type it out in simple fashion right there in that A little option window right there. You're good to go, So that field you type it in. Now watch this. I know 4.4375 is my initial guide. And if I have my guide activated right here, I would like to go in and I would like to I can either add that same amount to it as well. Or I could say, OK, you know, 4. over. It works a couple different ways What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag my second guide onto the page on I'm gonna do 17.75 divided by two, which is gonna put it right there in the middle. How do I do? My 3rd So it's like, OK, 17.75 divided by two Plus, you know, half of the Toko sign Tangent of the Yeah, Forget it. You know this is in design. This is not math. So watch this. So what I'm going to Dio is I'm going to take this initial guide here, and what I'd like to do is I would like Teoh literally move it over a certain distance. Okay, So what I could do here is I could add a certain distance to it. I would have to click on this guy and say OK, you know, this first guide is 4.4375 and I could move the whole thing over and add 4.4375 plus 4.4375 That would work. Certainly could. So if I took this guide and say, you know, plus 4.4375 right there, If I add this, it's going to take this guy to move it over. But it's like what happened to my guy that was sitting right there? I'll do that. It's like, moves it over. It's like, OK, you know. But I lost my guide right here. So it kind of takes that whole math equation here like Okay, math is bad enough. And now I got to figure this out. I'm gonna get rid of that guy because I could just go in and, you know, just add these things together and just say, OK, 4.3758 point eight, you know, and so on. Easy way. But take my first guide right here. I'm gonna say times to now if I say times too, and I'm just using my number pad. So if you're a 10 keepers and you'll understand this, I say times two. But if I hit return, it's just going to move over twice the distance. But if I hold down, my option key is you're gonna find out option duplicates. If I hit option return, it will do the math, and it will also copy it. Okay, so I'm gonna try that again. So there it is to take this and I take my first guide. I put my cursor in the end of that field. I say times too. If I simply hit return, it just moves it Not what I want to dio. I wanted Teoh move it and copy it. So times to option Return copies the whole thing right there. Now I want to take this guide and I want to move it again over another, you know, 50% so I could actually go in here and say, you know, plus 50% right there. I know crazy, isn't it? Because yeah, because you're adding half the distance, right? So if you say plus 50% and then you hit option return that copies it so you can use percentages because, you know, what's the percentage? It's just basically an easy way to multiply or divide. So if I want to add it half the distance I say plus 50% because then it's going to add 50% to it and copy it. Yeah, There you have it. I know. Isn't that great? It iss so vertical or horizontal guides. You can do the math on everything, anything that you want to have, an in design that you would like to move or resize or calculate. You can simply click on that object or that element, and you can use those fields up in your control bar to add, subtract, multiply, defied. You want to increase an image by 110%. You say you know, times 100 10% you want to make it 33% larger, you say, plus 33%. You want to make the box 1/4 of an inch wider and 3/16 of an inch higher. You simply add those in there. You hit return, and it automatically does it when we get in, duplicating objects that has also come in going to come into play so gnome or trying to go in and trying to draw a box on your page here and then duplicate this box and line it all up and then make them all and then stretch everything and then draw guides where you're Forget it, you know, don't even bother. So the mathematical equation right there plain and simple, and it always blows people away. OK, if you put in the value and you hit return. It's simply going to place the object where you put it. If you have option return, it's going to copy it. And then that new count calculation will be the destination. A portion of it right there. I love that kind of stuff because guides air just so rockin cool. You can set up anything so fast because everybody breaks out there. Calculator. This is the calculator. We've got it right here, for one. Sure am. So Jimmy Schaffer would like to know, Are you gonna talk about bleeds and guides and their functionality at some point? Or is now a good time we could get? We can certainly do that right now. Great. People always know when we're gonna talk about stuff. Okay, so we have our entire page set up and one of the things that I kind of glossed over when we created a new document here under filed new is the things at the bottom of my new file. So of course we had the size and the orientation. The columns in the margin, but hidden right here is what's called a bleed and a slug a bleed is anything that is going to touch the edge of the printed page needs to extend beyond it. If you have an image or colored background, it touches the edge of the page. You have to extend it typically an eighth of an inch beyond the edge of the page. And the reason why is because anything that touches the edge of a page is considered full bleed. The normally print the page larger. They extend or bleed the image or the content or the color off the edge of the page, and it gets trimmed off so that you end up with a beautiful printed piece of paper with no white little margins on there, where it doesn't quite touch the edge. This is set up inside the document. Now my image or my documents sizes 8.5 by 11. Any bleed that I put in here does not change the size of my document. When I put on a bleed, it extends guides outside the edge of my document, so my 8.5 by 11 document is still late in half. By 11 we print on larger paper to accommodate the bleed, but it does not make the document any larger. The slug is something that can go anywhere on the document here. And I've always put the slug on the bottom out of habit. It can go anywhere. The slug is for any information that you would like to put in this document that isn't on the document itself. But it's outside the document but still is allowed to be printed. So I'm gonna click OK, and you'll see Here are red box around here is the bleed. So anything that comes in contact with this, if I have an image or a container, it there's the edge of my page right there. If it had an image or it had some color in there, I would need Teoh extend that to my bleed. And there is my bleed right there. So it extends off to the edge and that is right there at my bleed. The bottom. I have my slug area now. Anything that is outside the realm of the page here doesn't print an old technical term. This is called the Paste Board. And for the old days, when we actually had boards and we pasted everything onto the board before it went to the camera that was called the Paste Board. Well, the Pace Board is where people like to store all their extra files. Well, nothing on the paste board prints unless it's actually touching the inside edge of the document. But very commonly will be doing layouts that have a lot of different, say codes in there, or offer codes or phone numbers or page sizes that will be very specific. A lot of times will do an ad for a magazine. It will go into six different magazines. They'll have a different offer code or a different phone number in each one. And this page sizes maybe 1/16 of an inch off. I can tell just by looking at the in design document really quickly. What magazine is gonna go in? So the slug area allows me to put anything in here to say is going to go into a certain magazine? And here's the size of it right here. And this is, you know, the phone number and the offer code. Everything else now, because this is off the page. It doesn't print, but because it's inside this lug area, we can control whether it prints or not. If there are special instructions or special things that are gonna happen with this, if I put it on the document page, there's an excellent chance it's going to get printed. I want this information to be relevant when I printed off for proving purposes. I want the proof for or the editor to be able to look at this, know and understand what's going on in this particular one. Verify the size So all the relevant information, contact information, everything else is going to go into the slug area again. We can control whether it prints or not. It's off the page, so it's never going to be mistakenly printed on the page there. This is just for information purposes. Anything outside this log area will not get printed. And right there, that blue area is the slug area area for anything for alternates, pictures, buttons. You know, Grandma waving, you know, with a peanut butter sandwich doesn't matter. That's why I said it. You know, I just know these things, So that's setting the file up again. When people set up the bleed here, it does not change the size of the document. It just simply extends guides beyond the edge of the document There just for building purposes. Cool. Okay, So, um bro, Rob would want to know. I may be getting ahead. How about aligning multiple guides aligning multiple guides? Can guides be selected as objects and align them using the align function? Oh, yes, you can't. Because so if you have multiple guides here when you select them, If I select all the guides here, you can see that we do have our line functions right here so I can go and I can distributed from vertical centers and horizontal centers. So I've got three guides on the page right here. My first guide is exactly where I wanted to be. My second guide is where I wanted to be. I'm gonna select all of these, and I can do that just by simply taking the selection tool on dragging over them and you'll see when my guides air selected, I have my distribute horizontal or vertical center. So I'm gonna distribute my vertical horizontal centers right there, and it will go ahead and establish that. And basically, how distribution works like this is whatever you have in a group here. So if I have all these guides right here and I select them all. The first in the last of the outside ones are my start and stop. So if I want everything balanced inside there, I can take all of these and I can say, OK, balance them in between. So the answer is yes, I can. Great. I can also use this wonderful spacing feature where I can say okay. Want to distribute them? But I want to go in. And I want to apply a certain space between them so that I could go ahead. And I can set these so I can use a certain spacing with my guides here, and I can align them. The other objects were gonna get more to that when we get into smart guides. But for basic hand drawn guides in the page here, Yes, you can put them in there and you could distribute them equally throughout Perfect. Thank you. And this is a question from Jessica at Piedras who has tweeted a question to us, which we love. And the question is, can you change a default shortcut? For example, change command F to be place in front rather than find change. The answer is yes. You can change the shortcut. Basically, what happens here when you change a keyboard shortcut? What it will do and I'll go to something very common, like file menu, and then we'll choose open. Just save right there. So there's command s right there. So if I want command as to mean something else like I wanted to be print on, I do. Command s right there. It says it's already assigned to save. I can assign it by clicking the assign button. And this current shortcut will now override the save command. So yes, you can. It'll just override it. The thing The key thing is, when you put it in here, you have to click the assign button. You can't just go and click, OK, or nothing will happen. But yes, you can. Uh, Sebastian Sebastian would like to know. How do you control if the content in the slug prints or not? We control that under the print menu. So under file menu, when we go to print file print, we go to our marks and bleed section and we have a check box that says include the slug area or don't include this log area, and you can see a little preview there will turn it on and turn it off and accurately represent what is actually coming up.