A weapon must be masterwork AND have a +1 enhancement bonus before a weapon property can be added to it.
It sounds like it is a melee only weapon property from the write up, but I don't have the book it is from to look it up past the link. That being the case only thrown weapons would come into play.
I know it doesn't "state" but seeing as there are differences between magical abilities and it is essentially 3PP material without actually stating if it IS melee OR ranged OR both, the actual write up seems particularly geared for melee and no example of ranged is given. This is one of the problems with using an unofficial property, it is missing important information and formatting. I would say it obviously wasn't intended to be used on anything besides melee, but that isn't what you want to hear and you will argue the point.
End result, it doesn't state it is ranged property capable either. If there was a clause or example for overriding DEX I'd say the argument had a leg to stand on. It doesn't say that...
You came to the public boards asking advice, unfortunately it seems the responses aren't what you wanted to hear.
RAW, if you are going to insist on using it on a ranged weapon, no, it does nothing for a DEX roll. Because it doesn't say it changes DEX attack rolls.
It does nothing for dex-based modifiers, If you can find a missile weapon with Str modifiers applied to it, then you can argue a case for guided doing something in that regard.
In short, Square peg -- round hole... move along... guided isn't going to bend far enough to suit you here.
So how does it effect DEX modifiers? IT DOESN'T. AT ALL.
It seems somebody else has already told you what you didn't want to hear. I apologize for any perceived harshness... but I cannot state more stridently... you are trying to marry your wish to something that will not be -- Unless your GM decides to dance on the head of a pin to accommodate you, this is cheating.
While you're at it though, look at the "Wisdom of the Flesh" trait. It subs str/dex/con skills for wisdom. If you ever find yourself in a situation where Guided would be legal, taking this too would be nice.
But seriously -- keep trying to sell the point if you like... nobody is going to tell you what you want to do is even vaguely resemblant of RAW, or even RAI. This is soley in the bounds of "Gumdrop wishes and sugarplum dreams."
If you do find a way to break this into somehow being acceptable, please post here though... I would like to make a build where I start with 30 wisdom and every other stat is a dump stat, and I use your loophole to make everything based to wisdom.
If you want to use it on a ranged weapon, it needs to be thrown, though something like a Halfling Sling Staff should work.
Even a thrown weapon uses DEX as the attack attribute so it wouldn't mod the attack roll.
An interesting corner case though:
You could be a zen archer monk with a guided composite longbow. ZA allows you to use wisdom for attack rolls, and guided would convert the STR bonus to damage into a WIS bonus. However, if your STR is not high enough, you would still take a penalty to attack with the composite longbow.
But you should just ignore what I just wrote if you are new to Pathfinder, Camhawk, because it will probably just confuse matters. Simple answer is that Vicon is right, and guided is not for ranged weapons.
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If you are a Cleric, who's god's favored weapon is a thrown weapon, then you could take the Guided Hand feat to use wisdom for attack rolls, then get that weapon the Guided enchantment, and use wisdom for damage.
WE HAVE A WINNER!
Then you make them a TWF, so they can throw that favored weapon and use it in melee with full WIS bonus to attack and damage on every attack!
Ok, so of the major deities it looks like Pharasma is the only one with a thrown weapon. So, you take a level of monk for WIS to AC. Then you go cleric and get channel smite, and guided hand.
Alternatively, go for a ZA monk with the Wisdom of the Flesh trait. Probably gonna use that on something like acrobatics (or possibly climb, because STR is a dumpstat now). Use a guided mighty composite longbow that has a (+ WIS mod) rating for STR. You take a -2 to hit, and a -2 for flurrying, but everything important is based off of WIS. Except hitpoints and two saves. We need a way to those WIS based.
Desna has a thrown weapon!
and luck/travel domain RULES!!!!
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The Guided property is not 3rd party as someone alluded to above. And it is usable on ranged weapons - at least it was used on a ranged weapon in the Paizo published Curse of the Crimsom Throne adventure path.
I don't have the book in front of me at the moment but I will check and see how & if it modified attack rolls...
I will admit I have not seen it any Paizo material that wasn't written as basically 3.5 stuff from back in the day - so maybe they banned it?
I can tell you that the sourcebook it appears in is not listed as acceptable material for PFS play.
So it is, though 3.5 material isn't 3.P regardless (as has been pointed out repeatedly since PFRPG has been published). It is possible it was part of the OGL at that time and so they reprinted it in the AP, they did it a few times in the 3.5 APs.
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It kinda is a third party option, as it was released by Paizo during the 3.5 days, and guess what company was "3pp" then? :p That's basically the ultimate irony of people who don't allow 3rd party stuff because it's third party. They're now playing a game by a third party publisher, based on the rules of a game made by a company that's now a 3rd party publisher to Pathfinder :)