InDesign Help! Bullet Points...

Stupot_ · 10 Jan 2010 at 00:11

Worth a shot! Someone here must know...!

Basically, I have a paragraph style set up that includes bullet points.

That all works fine, but for the life of me I can't work out how to automatically indent the next line after a bullet point so that it lines up with above.

I can press tab... But if I do that then when I change the size of the text box the formatting messes up.

Hope the screenshot helps..!

Nix · 10 Jan 2010 at 00:14

See where the ruler is above the frame? Try clicking in-line with the text up there and dragging.

Stupot_ · 10 Jan 2010 at 00:16

Nope not that

Thanks though

-Exodus- · 10 Jan 2010 at 00:16

click the button 2 buttons to the right of the jusified button. if that makes sense

PardonTheWait · 10 Jan 2010 at 00:31

Right... There's an invisible character that does this.

After the bullet point and the space type ctrl + \

After that they should run around to that point. Well it should be right, it's  + \ on a Mac anyway so should be ctrl + \ on PC.

whitecrook · 10 Jan 2010 at 00:32

Try a negative First line indent, the same value as the size of your tab stop after the bullet

PardonTheWait · 10 Jan 2010 at 00:34

I meant new bullet, not new line. When I'm doing it I tend to do the bullet the space and this character then copy them all and just paste them all in, I think in Quark I had a thinger set up that was a 'text bullet' that included the space and invisible character. I can't for the life of me remember what the character's called though, it does have a name.

Stupot_ · 10 Jan 2010 at 01:41

Thanks Pardon, that worked

Pretty cool little tip...