InDesign

Document window overview

Each page or spread in your document has its own pasteboard and guides, which are visible in Normal View mode. (To switch to Normal View, choose View > Screen Mode > Normal.) The pasteboard is replaced with a gray background when the document is viewed using one of the Preview modes. You can change the color of this preview background and guides in Guides & Pasteboard preferences.

Document and guides in Normal View Mode

A.
Spread (black lines)

B.
Page (black lines)

C.
Margin guides (magenta lines)

D.
Column guides (violet lines)

E.
Bleed area (red lines)

F.
Slug area (blue lines)

Document window notes:

  • Lines of other colors are ruler guides which, when present, appear in the layer color when selected.

  • Column guides appear in front of margin guides. When a column guide is exactly in front of a margin guide, it hides the margin guide.