Microsoft Expression Design on Demand

Chapter 4. Working with Grids, Guides, and Points

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• Show and Hide the Grid

• Change Grid Size

• Use the Grid as a Drawing Guide

• Snap to the Grid When Drawing

• Snap to the Grid When Moving Objects

• Add Ruler Guides

• Show and Hide Guides

• Snap to Guides

• Reposition Guides

• Remove Guides

• Create Angled Guides

• Make and Release Guides

• Snap to Points

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Introduction

Any good design application includes options for aligning objects to the document grid and to ruler guides. Expression Design is no exception; however, it does up the ante a bit with its Snap to Points feature, which allows you to align objects based on the position of each object’s bounding box nodes.

In this chapter, you’ll learn everything there is to know about working ...