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Hi everyone. In this video,

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before we get started making this lovely flyer,

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we need to adjust our measurements.

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By default, often a design comes with a measurement of picas.

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It just means that whenever this [inaudible] box on top here,

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its in millimeters, yours might be set to picas.

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When I make a rectangle,

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all the measurements is set to that,

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or if you just switching from imperial to metric.

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Let's go and change it. On a Mac,

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it's under InDesign CC.

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Hit down here to preferences and then down two units and increments.

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If you're on a PC, it's similar, its under Edit,

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then preferences is down here,

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and it will have units and increments.

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On a Mac CRM,

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and all you need to do here is we're going to change our horizontal.

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It might be on picas,

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and we're going to switch it to millimeters.

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Or we're going to do this course in inches.

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Just because most of the people watching my videos are American based,

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but you can switch it to millimeters.

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I'll show you a cool trick while you're working to interchange between the two.

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The other thing we might do here is if you go from millimeters to inches,

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you might want to change the default dictionary as well.

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Down here where it says Dictionary,

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I'll just make sure you're on the most relevant dictionary.

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I'm on English USA,

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you might have to switch yours to the one just up,

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which is UK English or Chinese.

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Whatever your dictionary is, let's click Okay.

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You can see up here that little box that I showed you earlier is now in inches.

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When I try and draw a rectangle,

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it comes up in inches.

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Quick, easy, short video.

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Let's go off and stop making this flyer from scratch.