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How to Create an Unordered List Without Bullets in InDesign

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 17, 2024
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Does anyone know if I can create an unordered list (for style and tagging purposes) and not have the bullets show up? I am running into dead ends looking for this answer.

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James Gifford—NitroPress

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Use a space as the bullet. It's usually the first glyph in any selection grid when you Add a new bullet.

Or use a bullet style with color set to None. (That will still put a glyph in the text flow, which might confuse readers, accessibility, export to digital formats, etc. but should work perfectly for print and okay for PDF if the reader skips the character.)

rob day

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Hi James, What‘s the advantage of a bulleted list with a bullet set to [None]— isn’t that the same as this?

James Gifford—NitroPress

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It's just another approach that might not have side effects; adjustment of the indents can achieve the same thing either way. But sometimes, the ID, she don' like having basic elements messed with — so I threw that in.

rob day

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Hi @Walker31335233cnei , Can‘t you do it with Space After and Indents?

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Walker31335233cneiAuthor

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THANKS for offering a suggestion. I need to use a paragraph style to make sure the PDF export is tagged properly for digital accessibility. I'm going to look through these replies and see what will work best for my specific needs.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Have you tried to delete bullet symbol in the Bullets and Numbering section of the ParaStyle definition?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@Walker31335233cnei

OK. It won't work for bullets - but as you don't want to have anything displayed in front of the text - switch to Numbers - and make the "NUMBER:" field empty:

Or it really has to be bullet list and can't be numbered one - even without numbers?

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Walker31335233cneiAuthor

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For accessibility purposes, I just want some kind of list. Hadn't thought to try a numbered list. I couldn't figure out how to delete a bullet so if I can choose no number, this may work! I'm going to look through these replies and see what will work best for my specific needs. THANKS for offering a suggestion.

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