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Set up text columns using layout guides

This procedure is useful if you are working with a publication that does not have predesigned text columns (for example, if you are creating a newsletter from scratch, rather than from a predesigned template).

1. On the Arrange menu, click Layout Guides, and then click the Grid Guides tab.
2. Under Column Guides, type or select the number of columns you want in the Columns box, and then type or select the spacing value (gutter amount) in the Spacing box. The column guides you create will appear on the current master page and on every page in the publication that uses that master page.
3. If your publication will be printed on facing pages, select Two-page master under Master Pages on the Margin Guides tab, and then click OK.
4. On the page where you want the columns to appear, create text boxes by clicking the Text Box tool on the Objects toolbar, and then dragging inside the columns defined by the layout guides.

Note  If the To Guides command (Arrange menu, Snap command) is turned on, each text box will snap to the nearest layout guide when you release the mouse button.