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Is it possible to add bullet points and numbers in XD?

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December 11, 2019
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I can't figure out how to do it.

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Correct answer Hassam Saeed

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chuck_penz

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While your answer is theoretically correct, most are looking for an integrated solution to create bulleted and numbered lists with automatic hanging indents etc. And even better would be additional control over the bullets like using a picture or glyph.

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alberto_sasa

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Ok. Let's see... Daniel, you ask for the bullets on December 2019. It's march 2021 and... We continue missed the bullets. =(

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Stanford22115435fvun

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It's now

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2022

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Anjika17779739

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This is such an inconvenience for those of us dealing with clients who are very detai oriented.

I have litterally pages of documents with bulleted lists and my client can't see past the fact there are no indents. Super lame.

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benjudy47

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And this explains why Figma, Sketch, and now Whimsical are in the lead while Adobe XD lags behind. (See Taylor Palmer's 2020 Design Tools Survey.)

How ironic that the Adobe Support Community forum supports bullets just fine.

See?
It's
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Maybe I should just do my UI design here in this comment box.

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Anonymous

Wow. This simple omission alone makes XD totally non-usable for me. I never thought I'd say this about an Adobe product, but this one is getting deleted. A "multi-year" effort to add things that Microsoft Word did 25 years ago? Here's an idea for free. Take the text editor that I'm using right now in your own forum, and use that.

Bullet
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Sometimes you have to "pause" your multi-year plan to make what you currently offer useful. Collaboration features won't win you any converts and generate any revenue unless you can do the basics.

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ini-sxd

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Fix this please!

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craig_clark

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I'd love better test formatting options in XD. I spend so much time messing around trying to simulate basic formatting. It takes me longer to make lists than it does to the design for everything else. For our clients we use real content, so it's hard to fake things. I've used the lists Plugin. It is no substitute for real lists.

Peter Villevoye

Community Expert

The Adobe XD team has developed a plugin to create numbered and bulleted lists.

It's aptly called "Lists" and can be found and installed through the Plugin panel in XD.

However – it's flawed by design (the way to invoke and use it is really very strange), lacks a lot of settings (even very obvious ones), and the flexibility afterwards is just terrible. I don't know if it's the weak textual and typographical underpinnings of the XD application itself is causing all these issues. But this plugin is hardly helping to ease the pain. It's actually adding insult to injury !

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wendys45979959

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Lists plugin – It isn't very good.

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wendys45979959

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I forgot to add it's a very poor substitute. Sketch can do bullets. Why can't XD?

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RAW-b

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Are you serious? Adobe made a product that can't format bullet points on a web site— what a ridiculous failure of a product. I have spent numerous hours learning XD only to find that it fails basic text editing? Shameful.

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clint.malson.zenplanner

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How on earth can Adobe be this far behind with XD. InDesign, PS, AI all have text formatting and controls far beyond XD. Why must an entire block of text have the same formatting. Please FIX this NOW. I have a team of 8 that would switch, but how on earth can you present designs to a developer without basic text formatting principals (bullets, numbers, soft returns, line spacing that doesn't span a whole block, indents, etc.) Some of us who value traditional type styling and formatting are asking. For Pete's sake this comment block has more options 😞

HARSHIKA_VERMA

Community Manager

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out. If you're visiting this thread for the first time, use the links below to upvote these feature requests and share your feedback with the product team.: Bullet Points / Unordered list and Ordered / Numbered Lists

In the time that this feature makes it to XD, we suggest trying the "Bullet plugin" and "List Plugin" from the Plug-Ins panel. You may also try copy-pasting text with bullets and numbered list from authoring tools into XD. Hope this helps, Harshika