Name: InDesign Tutorial - Automatic bullets and numbering
Uploaded: 2022-10-26T17:50:58.000Z
Duration: 5 min 46 s
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- You use a computer so that it will do the boring,

So the next time you need to add a bunch of bullets

or numbers in front of a list of paragraphs,

It's far more efficient to let InDesign add them for you.

I have my long document file open and let's press option

or alt page down to jump to the next spread.

Now I'll double click to switch to the type tool,

and I'll select a bunch of this text over here.

Now let's press command or control plus a couple of times

To add bullets, up here in the control panel,

we want to make sure we're in paragraph formatting mode,

I'm going to come over here to the middle of the panel

See how the bullet hangs out here in the left margin

and the text flows indented to the right of it.

I want to use something with a little bit more flare.

So to change those bullets, we need to get

to the bullets dialogue box, and to get there

or the alt key when you click on that button again.

we get options for what our bullets are going to look like.

Up at the top, we see a number of bullet characters

The regular old round one, that's the one that's selected.

You can see that that looks kind of interesting.

inside the dialog box, which is really weird.

but I did finally figure out why it shows up for some people

and use the search field to look for weird bullet character.

Anyway, if you see that, you can just ignore it.

Those are for you to make your own custom bullets.

Now, bullets are always characters from within a font,

In this case, let's choose a font that has a lot

Now I'll change the font style to regular.

So I'm just going to scroll down here a little bit

I'll click okay, and you can see it shows up

here in the dialogue box where I can select it.

Now the last thing we need to do is change these

This is how you get that hanging indent effect.

Let's change that first line indent to minus one P.

So let's click okay and click out here to deselect.

See, it wasn't so hard to get cool bullets after all.

Just below the bullet button is the numbering button.

So let's go ahead and select those paragraphs again

and this time I'll click on the number button.

Now, if it's a very simple list like this, you're done.

and the good news is that this will update automatically.

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InDesign Tutorial - Automatic bullets and numbering

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