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4. Click the Print option at the top of the Click a category name
resulting New Document dialog box. to show related presets.

5. Choose the Letter preset on the left
side of the dialog box.
The New Document dialog box presents
a number of preset sizes and prebuilt
starter templates, broken into categories
based on the intended output.

When you choose the Print category, you
see common page sizes such as Letter and
Legal. The Print presets automatically
default to the CMYK color mode, which
is required for commercial printing
applications. For all the Web and Mobile
categories of presets, the new document
defaults to the RGB color mode.
Click to select an existing
preset or template.
6. On the right side of the dialog box,
choose Inches in the Units menu.
By default, InDesign uses picas as the unit of measurement for print documents; mea-
surements in this dialog box are shown in picas and points, using the “ApB” notation
(for A picas and B points). Note:

After you choose a different option in this menu, the dialog box fields change to Picas are the measuring
reflect the new default unit of measurement. Because you selected the Letter preset in units traditionally used
Step 5, the Width and Height fields default to 8.5 inches and 11 inches respectively. in typography; they are
still used by many people
If you choose Web or Digital Publishing, InDesign changes the default unit of
measurement to pixels, which is more appropriate for web design. in the graphic commu-
nications industry.
Regardless of which unit of measurement you choose when you create a new file,
you can change the setting for a specific file in the Units and Increments pane of the 1 point = 1/72 inch
Preferences dialog box. InDesign supports all modern units of measurement, including 12 points = 1 pica
points, picas, inches, millimeters, centimeters, and pixels (as well as a few others from
historic typography). 1 pica = 1/6 inch
You can also type different measurement units, such as “2cm”, in a dialog box or panel 6 picas = 1 inch
field. As long as you include the unit in your entry, the software accurately translates
the value you type into the default unit for the active file.

7. Type gcm-letterhead in the Name field (below the words “Preset Details”).
8. Make sure the Portrait Orientation option is selected. Click here to
Portrait documents are higher than they are wide; landscape highlight the field,
documents are wider than they are high. If you click the Orientation then type to define
option that is not currently selected, the Width and Height values a new file name.
are automatically reversed. Landscape

Portrait
9. Leave the Number of Pages field set to 1.
A letterhead is a single page, usually printed on only one side. This
project needs only a single layout page in the InDesign file.

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