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A very powerful layout tool in Freehand is the ability to work with grids. Grids are basically what the name implies; a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines. Grids are great to work with when you are working in layouts. So let's take a look at how we can play with some grids. Simply go to the view menu, go down to grid and show grid. Now this is a grid. We have a series of dots and even though they are displayed as dots the grid is created from lines that intersect all these dots. So just think of them as a bunch of invisible lines to infinity within these dots. So now I can use my grid and line up objects based on this grid. At this point this grid really makes no sense to what I am doing, so I need to change the intervals between the grids. How are we going to do that? Well similar to working with guides, go up to our view, go to grid, edit, now we can change the size of the grid. Here we can change the size between our imaginary lines, let's just make this a standard 1-inch grid. Relative grid we will come back to in a second. So now we have a series of 1-inch squares on our page that I can use to align objects. Now I can do that manually or I can also select snap to grid where this going to move or snap just like a magnet to those points on the grid. This is essentially where you see my cursor. I grab this corner, that corner is going to be moving to those grid points. Same with the star; I can pick the middle, I can grab a corner and resize that to a particular point on the grid. Now you can also work with a relative grid and what a relative grid does is start the grid at the edge of a selected object. Now normally your grid will start at the top left corner of the page and work it's way across. If I want to have my polygon as the starting point for this grid simply, I'll select polygon, go to our grid, edit, make this a relative grid. And then notice everything starts with the polygon. That's a look at how you can work with grids in your designs.