Now we have placed the guides into the document. One great thing about InDesign is it doesn't see the guides as just guides on the background layer. Hopefully, you have seen that by the fact that if we select one, we can edit its value here inside the Control Palette. This means InDesign sees it more as an element and item that's drawn and created on the page. The great thing about that is they can also be organized on to separate layers and locked and hidden independently.
So let's make sure that all the guides are on one specific layer, so we can do that. Come down here to the Layers Palette, we should now be on the lower-left hand side of your screen according to the new workspace we created earlier on. Now I just go ahead and click Layers, the palette will come out and you will notice that we have Layer 1 in here already. Now that's default, every document starts with just one layer and this is its name.
We want to rename this one. So go ahead and just double-click its name to bring up the Layer Options dialog box. We will simply rename this one, Guides. Now if you go ahead and click OK, there is no other changes we need to make, is simply rename that layer, so we can locate it again in the future, but don't forget the main reason that we put these guides on to the A-Master page up here is that we want them to appear on every single page of our document. That's very important.
You can see here for pages 1, 2, 3 and 4, the icon of the page has a small A inside it. That means that this page is controlled by the A-Master. Well, to give a correct terminology, this is a child of the master page up here. So this is very much a parent and child relationship between pages and masters.
So what that means is if we jump back to either pages 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 now, you can see that the guides are on each page and this is perfect. You will also notice if you click on them and try and move them, they are actually locked in the background and that's one of the beautiful things about master pages in InDesign. If we want access to them, we can get access to them but the reason we put them up there is to lock them safely away in the background and allow us to build the rest of our elements on top of them.
Now before we continue we should do one thing and save this document. So just like you would in any program, press Ctrl+S or Command+S to bring up the Save dialog box. Now we are still inside the Adobe dialog here, so we could go back over to the Desktop here, locate the Project Files for Creative Suite 2, come down to your InDesign Files folder, and you will see there are a few in there that we have already. We will be using these a little bit later on, but this is where we are going to save our current document.
Now I am going to highlight the name here. Let's take Untitled-1 and we will just call this, Main Brochure. You can see the file extension is INDD, that stands for InDesign Document. You can also see at the bottom here Always Save Preview Images with Documents. Remember, we turned that on in the preferences earlier on. So we will always get a preview of the graphics that appear on the very first page of this document whenever we use a dialog such as this or Bridge, which we will use in a short while.
Now we have got that specified, let's go ahead and click Save. We are now ready to start placing elements into the document.
