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How to turn off auto-detection of lists in Illustrator?

New Here ,
Sep 13, 2022 Sep 13, 2022

I want to type "1. " etc, to add labels to an illustration, but Illustrator keeps turning it into a numbered list and my single space after the period becomes a large gap. I can find no way to turn this off so that I can just type a single space. If I click on the numbered list button to remove the numbered list formatting, it takes the number away. Is there a way I can just have a single space after a number and a period???

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Community Expert , Sep 13, 2022 Sep 13, 2022

Preferences > Type > Automatic Bulleted and Numbered lists while typing.

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Sep 13, 2022 Sep 13, 2022

Preferences > Type > Automatic Bulleted and Numbered lists while typing.

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New Here ,
Sep 13, 2022 Sep 13, 2022

Thank you so much!

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Community Expert ,
Sep 13, 2022 Sep 13, 2022

Good to hear that helped.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 25, 2022 Oct 25, 2022

Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!!
This drove in I N S A N E

THANKS

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Explorer ,
Mar 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023

Oh my god who asked for Illustrator to act more like Microsoft Word???

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New Here ,
Jul 29, 2025 Jul 29, 2025
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Thank you so much. 

 

It's Is a terrible, terrible feature.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 03, 2022 Nov 03, 2022

Since updating to v27.0 the preferences setting to 'turn off Automatic Bulleted and Numbered lists while typing' no longer works. It automatically bullets lists regardles of if the setting is on or off. I have cleared my preferences and deleted preference files to no avail. Is anyone having similar issues and does anyone have any ideas how this annoying feature could be turned off any other way? Thanks

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 03, 2022 Nov 03, 2022

Here too. So so frustrating. 
Just found this fix a couple of weeks ago and was thrilled it worked but as mentioned, not anymore...

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Nov 03, 2022 Nov 03, 2022
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Community Beginner ,
Dec 11, 2022 Dec 11, 2022

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one!! I was about to lose my mind over this! Such a frustrating and annoying update. 

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New Here ,
Jan 22, 2025 Jan 22, 2025

UNCHECK THIS: Settings >Type >Automatic Bulleted and Numbered lists while typing 

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New Here ,
Mar 27, 2025 Mar 27, 2025

Same thing happened to me. I know Adobe Staff need to work for a living, but why are they implementing handrails for a pro app? If we want an app that handhold us constantly, i will just use powerpoint. This is a pro app, we need control, stop getting in our way!

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