Change bullet points after pressing tab?

[ethandale]

So it's probably really simple, but I've been playing around in the Bullets and Numbering tab in paragraph styles for a while, and I still cannot get it set up so that if I press TAB, it skips forward and sets a new bullet point along with a new "indent" spot. Microsoft Word has it set up automatically, and I was spoiled by that for a long time. Does anyone know the solution to this?

[fenjas29325284]

This is not the way how InDesign works.

In short:

You have to define a list (menu Type) > this is mainly just a name and two options.

Then create as many paragraph styles as you want to have levels, say "level 1",  "level 2" and so on with all the indents, bullets, tab positions.

When writing the list items apply the appropriate level.

Read the details in the help file "Create multi level lists".

NOTE: Bullets are not supported with multi-level lists. But you can do it this way:

Creating the paragraph styles, set the list type temporarily as "numbered", now choose the list name and the level number, and then set the list type back to bullets.

Fenja