Select View > Rulers > Show Rulers.
Last updated on
Oct 27, 2025
Learn how to create guides, move, delete, or release guides, and snap objects to anchor points or guides.
Guides help you align text and graphic objects. You can create ruler guides (straight vertical or horizontal lines) and guide objects (vector objects converted to guides).
Create guides
Place the pointer on the left ruler for a vertical guide or the top ruler for a horizontal guide.
Drag the guide into position.
Note
To convert vector objects to guides, follow these steps:
Select the objects using the Selection tool.
Select View > Guides > Make Guides.
To restrict guides to a specific artboard rather than the entire canvas, select the Artboard tool and drag the guides onto the artboard.
Move, delete, or release guides
Select View > Guides > Unlock guides to ensure guides are editable.
Perform any of the following steps as needed:
- Select and drag the guide to a new position or copy it by pressing Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) while dragging.
- Select the guide and press Backspace (Windows) or Delete (macOS) to delete it.
- Select View > Guides > Clear Guides to delete all guides at once.
- Select the guides and then select View > Guides > Release Guides to revert them to regular graphic objects.
Snap objects to anchor points or guides
Select View > Snap to Point.
Select the object you want to move using the Selection tool and position the pointer exactly where you want to align with an anchor point or guide.
Drag the object to the desired location.
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