Guides manager can't add new guide by typing

[Indefensible]

As a new user, I have been watching tutorial videos on YouTube.

One video shower the user (on an Apple laptop) directly entering new guidelines in the Guides manager by typing. On my Windows 10 desktop, I can only enter guidelines by dragging from the ruler, and then amending to the position I want by editing the newly added line.

Unsure if this is a bug, or a feature not implement in the Windows version.

I tried it on Ver 1.8.2, and now 1.8.3 with the same issue.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Indefensible.

As a hint for the future, it will often help if you give us the URL of the YouTube (or other) video you're watching, so we can see exactly what you saw, and the approximate timecode where you saw it.

For now, I'll take a guess

In my screenshot of the Guides Manager, you would first click on the Add New Guide icon (marked), which then inserts a Guide at an application-determined location. You then click on the inserted Guide location to make it editable, and type the value you want.

[Indefensible]

Hi Walt

I have gone through my watch history, and can't find what I thought I saw, so possibly I made a mistake. I am also a former user of a much older version of CorelDraw, in which I could do type guides directly.

Over the past week, I looked a numerous vid's of different options, so I surmise that I must of misunderstood what app i was looking at.

I appreciate you taking the time to answer, and I will use your technique. I hadn't thought of using the add line that way because it defaulted to 50%, 25% etc. and it didn't occur to me to edit it from there. I was dragging from the ruler, close to the final position and then editing.

Thanks for your help

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. Note, too, that you can turn off the % option and get values in px, if you want.