How to make bullet list with large headings and smaller subordinate sentences

Report · Jul 22, 2025

Hi, all! I want to create a bullet list with large headings (the bulleted elements), and have subordinate sentences beneath each bulleted heading. I'm trying to make this in one text box. I considered just having the bulleted headings in separate text boxes from their respective subordinate sentences and aligning them all, since this is just a one page doc, but I know that's not the efficient way to do it.

Problems I've been having:

Having the bullets only appear next to the headings (I need a line break after the heading, so naturally, it applies bullets to the subordinate sentence, and I don't want that).
Aligning the second lines in paragraphs: I know where to adjust this, but I always have the darndest time figuring it out. I always seem to just luck out after randomly adjusting the bullet position values.

See attached jpg for reference. Obviously, I figured it out once, but only after trying and trying. Thanks! Oh, and videos would be appreciated, so I can see EXACTLY what you're doing.

Report · Jul 23, 2025

This is what paragraph styles are for. If you're not using them, you should be.

Use one style for the bullet and one for the descriptive text afterward. If each bullet has one paragraph followed by one descriptive paragraph, you can even make them follow each other by setting the next paragraph style. Do so would allow you to select all of the text, right click the bullet style and choose it with next style.