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mecdos
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September 3, 2024
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How to turn-off automatic Numbered Lists in Illustrator

  • September 3, 2024
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i'm making some simple labels and i want them numbered example: "1. item one" but i just want to type the numbers in myself as i want to treat them as separate textframes, but whenever i type in "1." it turns it into a numbered list. it is really annoying. anyway to stop this? [renamed by mod]
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Correct answer Anubhav M

Hello @11255440_co,

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind turning off the Automatic Bulleted and Numbered lists option while typing under Illustrator Type preferences to check if it helps?


Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Thanks,

Anubhav

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masonm65155230
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October 13, 2024

Ok Adobe I have questions:

 

  1. Why is this on by default?
  2. Why does it remove funcitonality of the text tool and prevent you from deleting the number????
  3. Why does Illustrator not remember when you turn it off in the paragraph window?

 

Notice that list up there? The site automatically generates that list when it recognizes a number with letters and a hard return, but, and now here's the real kicker, you can still delete the numbers! Truly we are living in the future. 

 

Seriously though, this is a truly baffling set of decisions. Can we please start testing these features with actual designers who are working before inflicting them on us please? If you did this, then you need to find a new cohort to test with, because no working designer who has been doing this for any length of time is going to be ok with you stripping out functionality of basic tools and which requires going into preferences to turn off just so they can have the same very basic functionality that has existed in software for, and I'm being literal here, decades.

 

 

 

 

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 13, 2024

Your questions:

2: That is a normal behaviour of lists. The numbers are generated automatically and that needs to be the case. In Illustrator you press return twice and you're ending a list.

3: Default formatting is done in Character Styles and Paragraph Styles. Lists *are* turned off in the Default Paragraph style, but the Preference setting overwrites it.

 

As for the beta testing: you can apply to get a part of it. 

Anubhav M
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Anubhav MCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
Community Manager
September 3, 2024

Hello @11255440_co,

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind turning off the Automatic Bulleted and Numbered lists option while typing under Illustrator Type preferences to check if it helps?


Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Thanks,

Anubhav

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