# Alignment

When you need to get the interior layout of your pages perfect, alignment guides can be a big help. Comic Life's alignment guides are easy to use, and once added they are immediately usable on every page.

Adding an alignment guide:
- To add an alignment guide simply click on either the vertical or horizontal ruler at the edge of the page and drag on to the page.

  An alignment guide is created and dragged to wherever you choose.

Adjusting an alignment guide:
- To move an alignment guide, simply click on it and drag it. The cursor will change to show that it is dragging the alignment guide.

  To precisely set the alignment to the ruler marks, hold down the shift key to snap the alignment guide to the nearest ruler mark.

Removing an alignment guide:
- To remove an alignment guide, simply drag it back to the ruler and release the mouse button.

  To remove all the alignment guides, choose View->Clear Alignment Guides.

Locking alignment guides
- When you're happy with the placement of your guides you can lock them into position by selecting View->Lock Alignment Guides. A checkmark appears next to the menu item indicating that they are now locked.

  When alignment guides are locked they will not respond to mouse clicks and you will not be able to add more alignment guides.

Hiding alignment guides
- If you want to preview your comic without alignment guides covering your work you can hide them them by selecting View->Show Alignment Guides and turning them off. If there is no checkmark beside Show Alignment Guides then the alignment guides are hidden.

  Select View->Show Alignment Guides to make them visible again.