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title: "Uses of the 'Progress Is Relative to the Highest Rearrange’ Option"
slug: "progress-is-relative-to-the-highest-rearrange-option"
description: "The ‘Progress is relative to the highest rearrange’ option is enabled on a pattern to adjust the progress measurement. More information in the article."
updated: 2024-06-14T14:27:53Z
published: 2024-06-14T14:27:53Z
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# Uses of the 'Progress Is Relative to the Highest Rearrange’ Option

**Progress** controls the spacing between objects belonging to the same pattern. The **Progress is relative to the highest rearrange** option is enabled on a pattern to adjust the progress measurement.

To view this option, double-click a pattern to open the **Pattern Properties** window and select the **Output** tab.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/1616665961952.png)

Once selected, it changes the positioning starting measurement from the top of each rearrange to the bottom of each rearrange, which is useful for having a consistent spacing between rearranges.

Normal relative progress:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-I1C979XO.png)

When **Progress is relative to the highest rearrange** option is selected:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-Y1C740K6.png)

In the following example, the position on the output has been set to **Size type Auto-Y**, and now the line of text is squeezed into multiple lines, which are causing problems with content overlapping:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-A5PKR0Z9.png)

This can be fixed by selecting the **Progress is relative to the highest rearrange** checkbox:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-G3UZEWXC.png)

A second example shows **Item Descriptions** being picked up and displayed as either single lines of text or two lines of text. This first image shows content overlapping (5mm progress) with **Progress is relative to the highest rearrange** disabled:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-4IDQMKF3.png)

Again, we see a different example with the **Progress is relative to the highest rearrange** option disabled and progress working inconsistently as the 10mm progress is being added from the start of each rearrange and does not take into account multiple lines:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-TMHVDRAX.png)

With **Progress is relative to the highest rearrange** enabled, we see content progressing with an equal amount of spacing as the progress is measured from the bottom of the rearrange:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-TTCDDO2W.png)