I am creating paragraph styles for install instructions. I created a large style for the install steps (based on what we liked) and set it up in the Numbering field:
I would like the text to be aligned with the top of the number, does anyone know how I can achieve this?
Change the definition of your "SG - Install Step Numbers" character style. As it is, the large font height forces InDesign to use a much larger line height for the first line. You cannot prevent that, even if you move down the numbers by shifting the baseline.
To get larger numbers without messing up the line height do not use Size but Horizontal and Vertical Scale (in the Advanced section). Set these both to something like 200%, and then use Baseline Shift with a large-ish negative value to set the vertical position. You need to do this by eye, there is no preset or function for it.
This is what it should look like:
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