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Welcome to this Google Drawings tutorial. In Lesson 32, you will learn about rulers and guides in Google Drawings. We’ll explore how these tools can help you position objects, maintain alignment, and create more organized layouts. Using rulers and guides can improve accuracy when designing diagrams, illustrations, and other visual projects.

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00:08you also have access to rulers and guides inside of google drawing for example over here on the
00:15top you can see the ruler but if you are not able to see it then you can go around
00:20on to view and
00:21you can enable the show ruler if i were to click on this you can see that the ruler gets
00:25hidden
00:26but if i were to go to view and click on show ruler then it pops up again right here
00:31so from the ruler
00:32what i can also do is i can click and drag out a guide right here as you can see
00:37i can click and
00:37drag out and here i can add in guides right here so what you can do with the guides is
00:42that if there's
00:43any shape you can go around and use it as a reference point right here just like this as you
00:48can
00:48see so over here this uh this is the guide that i have right here i can go around over
00:53here click
00:54and drag around a shape right here and use this guide to make sure that it is in the same
00:59exact
01:00location right here just like this as you can see there's also this vertical guide right here to help
01:06you out as you can see right here you can also right click over here and click on add vertical
01:11guide to
01:11add in multiple vertical guides over here as well and over here you can see that there's various
01:17shortcut keys that you can use as well so you can show guides that will click uh that will hide
01:22the
01:22guides or show it again right here or you can go to uh view right here onto guides and here
01:28you can
01:28see you get the same option to uh edit the guides right here to add vertical guides or horizontal guides
01:34you can also click on edit guides right here and then what happens is that you can change the color
01:39of the guide right here and you can also change out the size of the guide over here as well
01:44so let's
01:45say for example i'm just going to go around over here change out the color of the guide you can
01:49add new
01:50guide over here as well and there are different colors that you can choose for each of the guides
01:55over here as well press done and you can see that the guide colors changes out accordingly as well so
02:01over here there's different options that you have for the guides and you can right click over here as
02:07well if you want to clear out the guides that is if you want to delete off the guides you
02:11can click and
02:12drag around the guide to the ruler or you can right click in the guide right here and click on
02:17change
02:17color right here to change the color or right click and delete out the guide over here as well you
02:22can
02:22right click and edit guides uh click on that to go to the same option over here as well if
02:28you want to
02:28clear all of the guides however you can go to view right here go to guides and click on clear
02:33guides and
02:34then all of the guides will be deleted and that is how you can work around with ruler and guides
02:40inside
02:40of google drawings so i hope you guys learn something as always and as always please like comment share and
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