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March 10, 2010
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Indented - Hanging Indents - with Bullets

  • March 10, 2010
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Greetings All,

I have found helpful discussions on how to make bulleted lists with hanging indents.  It works fine as long as the bullet is all the way to the left of the page.

I have several paragraph styles as;

  • 1.
  • 1.1
  • 1.1.1
  • 1.1.1.1

Each style is indented under the previous one.

When I try to move my bulleted list under 1.1.1.1, the 2nd line wraps way to the right as shown below:

                    - This is an example of how the 2nd line of text

                                                  wraps way out to the right.

Can anyone please help me?

Thank you,

Paul

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    Correct answer

    It looks like you are trying to achieve a hanging indent where the second line text aligns with the text in the first

    line after allowing for the bullet.

    Set a paragraph left indent to any value (within reason) and the first line indent to the negative of that value.

    Then you can tweak them together to get the effect you want and save it as a style.

    k

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    PEM_Author
    Participant
    March 10, 2010

    I should have mentioned that I want it to look like this:

                        - This is an example of how the 2nd line of text

                          wraps way out to the right

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    Community Expert
    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 10, 2010

    Yes

    In the Paragraph Style Options

    You can set the Bullet to be what you want and adjust the Indent and First line indent

    (also available in the Control Bar at top and available through the Tabs Panel <window>tabs>)

    Left Indent

    and

    First Line Indent

    http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6dba.html

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    Anonymous
    Correct answer
    March 10, 2010

    It looks like you are trying to achieve a hanging indent where the second line text aligns with the text in the first

    line after allowing for the bullet.

    Set a paragraph left indent to any value (within reason) and the first line indent to the negative of that value.

    Then you can tweak them together to get the effect you want and save it as a style.

    k

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