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Hey Guys,

 

Forgive me if I don't express this in the correct terms, but is there an ability in publisher to chose the 'anchor' points for the auto measuring when you move something. I'm talking about the incredibly useful little arrows that come up and show you how far away / close you are to the item below and above. Great for when you trying to equally space something. it's just that sometimes I want to select a different item that it measures against. Hope that makes enough sense.

Cheers,

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5 hours ago, haakoo said:

Hi,

I've taken a look here, but I could not work it out. I've attached a file. Under snapping only snap to guides is turned on. but as you can see it's measuring against the text box above, when in reality say I'd like to measure to the picture frame to the right and above that text box. Does that make sense. If this was snapping based should it not be measuring against the guide line that's in between the what I'm moving and the text box?

 

Cheers,

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It should measure from the selected object to the object you have the mouse cursor over. And it does do that, in my experience.

-- Walt
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16 minutes ago, Ikikuru said:

Just had the mouse cursor over the object I want to measure against, but still only measuring against the text box above for some reason!

Sorry, but it's unclear to me (a) which object you have selected and (b) which object you're wanting to measure against.

The measurement should be from the object you have selected to the object you have the mouse over.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7

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