How to delete guides using option/alt+click?

[Anonymous Puddle]

Beginner here:
I am experimenting with guides. When trying to delete guides, I understand that there are a few methods:

1. Drag the guide line off the page and it will disappear

2. Open the guides control panel (In Menu Bar: View > Guides) and delete individual guides or delete all guides

3. Option/Alt (⌥) + Click

I am having trouble figuring out how to delete a guide using the third method. All it does is duplicate the guide line. What am I doing incorrectly?

When clicking and holding a guide line, this is the tooltip I get on the bottom of my screen. The far right option is what I'm trying to accomplish:

Below is a screenshot of what an Affinity support article says about guides. I don't understand what it means regarding a "tapped ruler guide". I must be severely overthinking this?

[Hangman]

Hi @Anonymous Puddle and welcome to the forums,

You just have to ensure you don't click-drag when holding down the Option/Alt key as that will duplicate the guide. A simple Option/Alt Click will delete it...

[Anonymous Puddle]

Ah, I see the issue now! Thanks for the reply @Hangman, I definitely already tried this but for some reason after reading your post, I thought to try it in a way I hadn't tried yet: previously, I had just option/alt+clicked on the guide line within the ruler but Option/Alt+clicking on the guide in the view window did the trick, not clicking on the guide within the ruler.

What should have been self-explanatory took me a few hours to figure out, even after researching it! I have a long road to learning this program... (facepalm)

[Hangman]

Hi @Anonymous Puddle,

I think it's like most things, once you know how to do it it seems obvious but there are sometimes a few things in the apps that aren't immediately obvious and trip people up, myself included but I'm glad you know how to do it now...

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, Anonymous Puddle said:

Below is a screenshot of what an Affinity support article says about guides. I don't understand what it means regarding a "tapped ruler guide".

I think you may have opened a support article for the iPad version, so on that device a finger or stylus tap is the equivalent of a click on the desktop versions.

(This is why it mentions the Command Controller, an iPad Affinity V2 option explained here.)

[Anonymous Puddle]

2 hours ago, R C-R said:

I think you may have opened a support article for the iPad version, so on that device a finger or stylus tap is the equivalent of a click on the desktop versions.

(This is why it mentions the Command Controller, an iPad Affinity V2 option explained here.)

Here is the link to the article I attached a screenshot of. I didn’t see any mention of iPad. But I checked today and it says “Designer2iPad” in part of the link, so you’re correct. It doesn’t indicate it anywhere on the page though which is weird and confusing…

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Also, @Hangman I just saw the video you posted, it didn’t show it when I read your post yesterday but thank you for that!

[walt.farrell]

22 minutes ago, Anonymous Puddle said:

It doesn’t indicate it anywhere on the page though which is weird and confusing…

1. It's in the URL.
2. If you know the functions of the app, it's in the text (e.g., the reference to Command Controller).
3. If you click Introduction in the sidebar, it discusses iPad.

The intention is that you will start at https://affinity.help and navigate to the Help you need, and then Search, and then you wouldn't have that problem. However, if you do an imprecise Google (or other web search engine) Search, you will get imprecise results. That might be results for iPad when you're desktop (or vice versa), or results for V1 rather than V2.

If you want to do a more precise web search, you can add site://affinity.help/designer2 as one of the search terms (or photo2 or publisher2, of course). Then you'll just get results for Designer 2, and not Designer 2 iPad or Designer V1.