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- [Instructor] In this movie,
I'll show you how you can

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align and distribute
artboards in Illustrator CC,

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which will allow us to
take our current mess

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and turn it into this tidy document here.

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All right, so as is often the case,

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the first step is to
select the Artboard tool,

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which you can get by pressing Shift-O.

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And notice that artboard
zero is currently selected.

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I want to add artboard seven, eight,

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and nine to that selection
so I'll press the Shift key

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and marquee those three artboards.

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You don't want to marquee artboard
zero or you'll turn it off.

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So just go ahead and
Shift-marquee these guys.

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And that way, you'll
select all of the artboards

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along the bottom row.

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All right, now for the
sake of demonstration,

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I'm going to drag these
guys over to the left here,

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just so we can see an
example of what can go wrong.

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All right, now I want
to direct your attention

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to the word Align over
here on the right side

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of the control panel.

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And notice if you click on it,

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you're going to bring up a pop-up panel

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that includes one row of alignment options

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and another row of distribution options.

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Now you can work inside this
pop-up panel if you like.

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The problem is, every
time you go to select

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a different artboard, that
panel's going to disappear

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and then you're going
to have to bring it back

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and it's going to disappear
again and so forth.

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So if only for the sake of this video,

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I'm going to go up to the Window menu

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and choose the Align command,

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which is going to bring up
the persistent Align panel.

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That is to say the one
that's not going to disappear

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over and over again on me.

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All right, I'm going to move
it into a different location

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by dragging its title bar right here.

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That's what it's called, even
though there is no title.

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I'm just going to go
ahead and drag it down

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to a kind of neutral location

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that's away from the artboards.

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Now I want you to notice
among this first row

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of alignment icons, we have three icons

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devoted to horizontal alignment

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and three devoted to vertical alignment.

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Right now, we want these
artboards to align vertically.

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And so if you were to click
on Vertical Align Top,

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you'll move all but one
of the artboards upward

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to match the top edge of what was formerly

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the highest artboard.

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All right, so I'll go
ahead and press Ctrl-Z

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or Command-Z on the Mac
to undo that change,

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so you can see the opposite effect.

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So notice right now, artboard
eight is the lowest one

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in the group.

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And so if I were to click
Vertical Align Bottom,

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I would move artboards seven,
nine, and zero downward

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to match the position of artboard eight.

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Or if I undo that change, I
can move all the artboards

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to some extent or other by
clicking Vertical Align Center

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and that will adjust them all

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so that they vertically align
as we're seeing right here.

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Now I want to distribute the artboards

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so that the space between
artboard seven and eight matches

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that between eight and nine
as well as nine and zero.

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And you can accomplish that
using this second collection

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of distribution options
right here, all of which

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allow you to horizontally
distribute the artboards.

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Now because all of my
artboards are the same size,

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I can click any one of these icons

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and get the exact same result.

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And so I'll just go ahead
and click on this center guy

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right here, Horizontal Distribute Center,

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and that will give me the
effect that I'm looking for.

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All right, now I want to take artboard one

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and align it to artboard seven.

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And so I'll click on artboard one

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and then I'll Shift-click
on artboard seven

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so that those two artboards are selected.

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Notice artboard eight is not selected,

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because it does not have a blue boundary.

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All right, now I want to take
advantage of one of these

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horizontal alignment icons right here.

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And so if I were to
click on this last one,

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Horizontal Align Right, I
would move artboard seven

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over to the position of artboard
one, because artboard one

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was in the right-most
position to start with.

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That's not what I want, of
course, so I'll press Ctrl-Z

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or Command-Z on the Mac to undo that move.

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If I click on Horizontal Align Center,

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then I'll move both artboards
so seven is overlapping eight.

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Clearly not what I want
so I'll press Ctrl-Z,

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Command-Z on the Mac.

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The guy I do want is this one right here,

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Horizontal Align Left, which
is going to move artboard one

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into alignment with artboard
seven, because after all,

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artboard seven started in
the left-most position.

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All right, now I need to do
the same with artboards four

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and zero, so I'll click on one
and Shift-click on the other.

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And then I'll go ahead and
click on that same icon,

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Horizontal Align Left, to move the four

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into the proper location.

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The problem is that now it
overlaps artboards two and three.

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And so if I were to click off
the artboards to deselect them

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and then Shift-marquee
all of the top artboards,

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one, two, four, and three,
and then do anything

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such as click on Vertical Align Center,

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then I'm going to move that
four, because it's caught

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on artboard three, and
that's not what I want.

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So I'll just go ahead and press
Ctrl-Z or Command-Z on a Mac

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to undo that change.

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And I'll press Ctrl-Z or Command-Z again

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in order to undo the previous step.

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And now I'll just click off
the artboards to deselect them.

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I'll Shift-marquee two and three here,

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move them over to some
intermediate location.

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And then I'll click on artboard four,

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Shift-click on artboard zero,

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and click the Horizontal Align Left icon

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here inside the Align panel.

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Then I'll click off the
artboards to deselect them.

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I'll Shift-marquee
artboards one through four

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and I'll click on this
guy, Vertical Align Center,

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in order to line up
those artboards like so.

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We still have a distribution problem,

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so notice that the distance
between artboards one and two

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is much larger than the
distance between three and four.

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But I can take care of
that just by clicking on

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Horizontal Distribute
Center in order to produce

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this effect here.

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All right, now we need
to move five and six

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into the proper positions.

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And I'm just going to take artboard five

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and move it down a little
bit, just so we can better see

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the effects of vertical distribution.

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And then I'll Shift-click
on artboard eight

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as well as artboard two.

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So two, five, and eight are now selected.

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The artboards that are in the
good positions, two and eight,

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are to the left of five, and
so once again, I'll click on

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Horizontal Align Left here
inside the Align panel.

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And then I'll drop down
to this first group

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of distribution options,

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all of which are devoted
to vertical distribution.

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Once again, because all of our
artboards are the same size,

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we can click on any one of these icons.

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So I'll just go ahead and click on

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Vertical Distribute
Center and that goes ahead

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and evens out the spaces
between all three artboards.

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All right, now I'll click on artboard nine

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and Shift-click on six and three like so

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and then I'll just run
through the same steps.

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I'll click on Horizontal Align Left

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and then I'll drop down and click on

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Vertical Distribute Center

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in order to produce this effect here.

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All right, now I'll press the Escape key

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in order to exit the Artboard edit mode.

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And I'll hide the Align panel

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either by clicking on this
little X or you can go up

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to the Window menu and once
again, choose the Align command.

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And that'll go ahead and hide that panel.

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And then finally, I'll
go up to the View menu

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and choose Fit All in
Window, which will magnify

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and center our 10 perfectly
aligned artboards.

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And that is how you align
and distribute artboards

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here inside the most recent
edition of Illustrator CC.