diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index 3e011bb44..2ebf4c311 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ Newest first.
 - **2026-10-20** · Object › Corner Options opens a Corner Options dialog laid out as InDesign's: each corner's size and shape, the link button that makes all four the same, and Preview. The Corner link in Properties › Appearance opens it too (it opened a Rectangle size dialog). No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-20** · The Object menu is in InDesign's order and groups; Paths has Join, Open Path and Close Path (Convert Shape lists only shapes, as InDesign's does) and a Convert Point submenu (Plain, Corner, Smooth, Symmetrical) is added. No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-14** · Numbering & Section Options opened on a page that doesn't start a section is New Section, as in InDesign: Start Section on, 1 offered, and the start numbers stay editable (typing one chooses it). No readiness percentage change.
+- **2026-10-20** · Layout › Create Guides puts its guides on both pages of the spread in view, as InDesign does; "This page" in Apply to narrows them to one page. No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-21** · Properties › Character and Paragraph: ••• (More Options) expands the section in place, as InDesign's: Character adds vertical and horizontal scale, baseline shift, skew, language and OpenType, and All Caps, Small Caps, Superscript, Subscript, Underline and Strikethrough; Paragraph adds the left, right, first line and last line indents, space before and after, the drop cap's lines and characters, Align to Baseline Grid and Hyphenate. It used to open the Character or Paragraph panel; the language field moved under ••• as in InDesign. Found in the Learn Skills Daily course, chapter 16. No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-21** · The text Control panel has InDesign's two modes: A (Character Formatting Controls: font and style, size and leading, All Caps/Superscript/Underline and Small Caps/Subscript/Strikethrough, kerning and tracking, vertical and horizontal scale, baseline shift and skew, character style and language) and ¶ (Paragraph Formatting Controls: the nine alignments, left/first line and right/last line indents, space before and after, the drop cap's lines and characters, paragraph style, Hyphenate and Align to Baseline Grid). It used to show a fixed mix of both. Found in the Learn Skills Daily course, chapter 16. No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-20** · With the Type tool, the Control panel's font size, leading and tracking fields have a spinner and a list of common values, as in InDesign (auto leading in parentheses). No readiness percentage change.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
index 8de6cb9b3..261f3d3b2 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
@@ -934,19 +934,20 @@ fn doc_unit(app: &DesignApp) -> Unit {
     app.session.active().map(|s| s.doc.settings.horizontal_units).unwrap_or(Unit::Picas)
 }
 
-/// Layout › Create Guides…: guides go on the page in view (or the parent page being edited), not
-/// on the first page, and the gutters are typed in the document's ruler unit.
+/// Layout › Create Guides…: guides go on every page of the spread in view (or of the parent
+/// spread being edited), as InDesign's do; "This page" narrows them to
+/// the page in view. The gutters are typed in the document's ruler unit.
 pub fn open_create_guides(app: &mut DesignApp) {
     let unit = doc_unit(app);
     let Some((spread, page)) = crate::canvas::current_spread_page(app) else { return };
-    let editing_parents = matches!(spread, SpreadRef::Parent(_));
     let gutter = json!(format_measure(12.0, unit));
     let mut d = Dialog::new(
         "createGuides",
         json!({"rows": 0, "columns": 0, "rowGutter": gutter, "columnGutter": gutter, "fitTo": "margins", "removeExisting": false,
             "spread": serde_json::to_value(spread).unwrap_or(json!(0)), "page": page,
-            // A parent spread is edited as a whole (both pages of a facing spread), so the guides show on every page that uses it.
-            "target": if editing_parents { "spread" } else { "page" },
+            // InDesign puts the guides on both pages of a facing spread (and a parent spread is
+            // edited as a whole, so they show on every page that uses it).
+            "target": "spread",
             "where": target_description(app, spread, page)}),
     );
     d.unit = unit;
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests.rs
index 15bdf2490..02f531437 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests.rs
@@ -3469,18 +3469,20 @@ fn guide_counts(app: &DesignApp) -> Vec<usize> {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn create_guides_dialog_targets_the_page_in_view() {
+fn create_guides_dialog_covers_the_spread_in_view() {
     let mut app = facing_app(6);
+    // As in InDesign, both pages of the facing spread in view get the guides.
+    crate::canvas::go_to_page(&mut app, 1);
+    crate::menus::activate(&mut app, "layout.createGuides", &Value::Null);
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.dialog.as_ref().unwrap().s("target"), "spread");
+    ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.set", json!({"field": "columns", "value": "2"}));
+    assert_eq!(ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.confirm", json!({}))["ok"], true);
+    assert_eq!(guide_counts(&app), vec![0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0]);
+    // "This page" narrows them to the page in view.
     crate::canvas::go_to_page(&mut app, 4);
     crate::menus::activate(&mut app, "layout.createGuides", &Value::Null);
     ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.set", json!({"field": "columns", "value": "3"}));
-    assert_eq!(ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.confirm", json!({}))["ok"], true);
-    assert_eq!(guide_counts(&app), vec![0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0]);
-    // "Both pages of the spread" covers the facing pair.
-    crate::canvas::go_to_page(&mut app, 1);
-    crate::menus::activate(&mut app, "layout.createGuides", &Value::Null);
-    ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.set", json!({"field": "columns", "value": "2"}));
-    ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.set", json!({"field": "target", "value": "spread"}));
+    ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.set", json!({"field": "target", "value": "page"}));
     assert_eq!(ctl(&mut app, "ui.dialog.confirm", json!({}))["ok"], true);
     assert_eq!(guide_counts(&app), vec![0, 2, 2, 0, 4, 0]);
 }