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332 Part V: The Part of Tens the top and side of your screen. You get a drop-down menu that shows all the units of measurement that Illustrator understands. Choose the unit you desire; from that moment on, Illustrator uses that unit of measurement. You can reposition rulers by clicking and dragging out from where the rulers meet at the upper-left corner. To reset them, double-click that corner. However, you don’t have to change your unit of measurement to use a different one. In any field where you specify an amount (such as the Height and Width options in the Rectangle dialog. | 332 Part V The Part of Tens__ the top and side of your screen. You get a drop-down menu that shows all the units of measurement that Illustrator understands. Choose the unit you desire from that moment on Illustrator uses that unit of measurement. You can reposition rulers by clicking and dragging out from where the rulers meet at the upper-left corner. To reset them double-click that corner. However you don t have to change your unit of measurement to use a different one. In any field where you specify an amount such as the Height and Width options in the Rectangle dialog box just type in the amount you want followed by the abbreviation of the unit of measurement that you want to use. If you don t know the abbreviation just use the whole name. Illustrator makes the conversions for you. Want to impress your friends with a great power-user tip You can cycle through the different measurement units by pressing Ctrl Alt Shift U Ô Option Shift U on a Mac . It helps to have your rulers up when doing this so you can see what the current measurement system is. Reusing Your Brushes Swatches and Libraries Has this ever happened to you You go through the trouble to create custom brushes beautiful colors and outstanding appearances save them in the Styles panel and later discover that they re all specific to the document that you created them in. Rats To prevent that from happening to you again you can open the swatches brushes and styles that you created in one document in any other document. For example to get the brushes from another document choose Window Brush Libraries tOther Library. In the Open dialog box that appears choose the document with the brushes that you want to add to the current document as if you were going to open it. Click Open. Instead of opening that document Illustrator opens the custom brushes in their own panel ready for you to use. Follow the same steps choosing Window Swatch Libraries Other Library