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                    Customize the pasteboard and guides
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                <div><div class="section"><p>You can control the colors used to
display guides for page margins and columns, as well as the guides
for the bleed and slug areas on the pasteboard. To make it easier
to distinguish between the Normal and Preview modes, you can change the
color of the preview background. </p>
<p>InDesign also lets you control
how close an object needs to be to snap to a guide, whether guides
should be displayed in front of or behind objects, as well as the size
of the pasteboard.</p>
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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose Edit&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
Guides &amp; Pasteboard (Windows) or InDesign&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
Guides &amp; Pasteboard (Mac&#160;OS).</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Under Color, choose the desired colors from each of the
following menus, or choose Custom to specify a custom color using
the color picker. </span> <dl><dt class="dlterm">Margins</dt>
<dd>Sets the color of the page margins.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Columns</dt>
<dd>Sets the color of the column guides for the page.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Bleed</dt>
<dd>Sets the color of the bleed area (which is set in the
Document Setup dialog box).</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Slug</dt>
<dd>Sets the color of the slug area (which is set in the
Document Setup dialog box).</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Preview Background</dt>
<dd>Sets the color of the pasteboard when in the Preview mode.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>To set how close an object must be to snap to a guide
or grid, specify a value in pixels for Snap To Zone.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To display guides behind objects, select Guides In Back.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To specify how far the pasteboard extends out from the
page or spread (or the bleed or slug area, if specified), enter
a value for Minimum Vertical Offset. </span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click&#160;OK to close the Preferences dialog box.</span></li>
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<div class="section"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />You can change the on‑screen color of
your paper. With no text or objects selected, double-click the Paper
color in the Swatches panel (choose Window&#160;&gt; Swatches).
The Paper color appears on‑screen only and does not affect output;
it is intended only to simulate designing for nonwhite paper.</div></div>
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