## Working with the Grid

When working in a form or template editor, PC-DMIS can display or hide a grid on the background of your form or template by clicking the Toggle Grid icon
from the Layout Bar or by pressing CTRL + G.

You can use this grid as a tool for the accurate placing and/or sizing of objects and how to control a template's margin guidelines.

| A - Guidelines
B - Grid markings

Example showing the default grid's markings and guidelines

Select Edit | Layout | Grid Settings to access the Grid Settings dialog box.

Grid Settings dialog box

You can then use this dialog box to customize the grid. For a description of the controls in this dialog box, see the table below:

Dialog Box Control | Description
Show Grid check box | The Show Grid check box toggles the display of the grid.
Snap to Grid check box | The Snap to Grid check box determines whether or not controls placed on the grid get moved, or snapped, to the nearest grid location.
Spacing area | The Spacing area sets the amount of spacing between the grid markings. The smaller you set these numbers, the closer together the grid markings will be.
Guidelines area | The Guidelines area allows you to determine the location of the top, left, right, and bottom margin guidelines for the template editor. The value in each of these boxes sets the distance in grid markings to where the guideline will be set. Setting the value to zero will remove the guideline completely.

You cannot place objects beyond these guidelines.