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Snapping

Snapping can help speed things up and increase accuracy when using tools such as the Ruler tool. Snapping snaps your mouse to the edge of objects when your mouse is near the edge. To enable or disable snapping, choose View  >Snap. Then, choose View > Snap to to edit the snapping options.

Snapping is something that you will be enabling or disabling often because it can sometimes be helpful or annoying. For example, snapping can help you create a measurement line quicker and more precisely by automatically snapping to objects edges. However, when you want to create a point near an edge, but not exactly on it, the snapping may make it impossible to do. To disable snapping, you can choose View > Snap or, easier, hold down the Ctrl key.