Layer Properties Dialog Box
With the Layer Properties dialog box you can alter the properties of a layer and change the guides layer settings. The dialog has two sections, one for layers and one for guides.
Layer
With the Layer tab in the dialog box you can alter:
The name of the layer. See
Renaming layers.
Whether the layer is visible.
See Hiding layers. Dimmed for
Animation documents.
Whether objects in the layer
can be edited. See Locking layers.
Dimmed for Animation documents.
These settings are duplicates of those shown in the Layer Gallery itself.
Guides
The Guides tab allows you to create new guidelines and set the color of all the guidelines and guide objects in the guides layer.
The Horizontal\Vertical
setting sets whether horizontal or vertical guidelines are shown.
The New
button allows you to create a new guideline.
The Delete
button deletes the selected guideline(s).
The Properties
button opens the Guideline
Properties dialog box and allows you to set the exact position of
the selected guideline.
At the bottom of the dialog box is a drop-down list from which you can select the color used to display the dotted outlines of all objects in the guides layer. For more details, see Changing the color of guides.