How to Make Bullet Points Less Ragged in InDesign?

[James3669094303ct]

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[Abhishek Rao]

Hi @James3669094303ct, 

Thanks for reaching out to the community! I'm here to help you resolve the issue you're facing with bullet points in InDesign.

Could you please provide a bit more detail about what you mean by "ragged"? Are the bullet points not aligning correctly, or are you noticing irregular spacing or other formatting issues? Additionally, it would be helpful to know which version of InDesign you're using and the details of your operating system.

Looking forward to your response!

Thank you,
Abhishek Rao

[James3669094303ct]

just so the last lines are more aligned

[Abhishek Rao]

Hello @James3669094303ct,

Thank you for your response. Could you please provide more specific details about the alignment issue you're experiencing? From the screenshot, the alignment appears to be fine to us. 

If possible, could you share a screen recording that shows the alignment issue more clearly?

Also, providing the version of InDesign you're using along with the details of your operating system would help us assist you more effectively.

Thank you,
Abhishek Rao

[James3669094303ct]

is it possible to make all bullet point text to align to the blue guideline?

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

Why would you want to do that? What you have there looks fine to me. The only way to do what you want is to set the text to justify and it would look awful.

[James3669094303ct]

okay thanks

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

If you want bullet items (or any other paragraph style) to wrap further in, you can set a right margin. It's fairly standard to right-indent list items some small amount so that they are visually inset from the column text.

You also might want to explore this function:

...which will use a simple algorithm to wrap paragraph lines for equal lengths.

It's an esthetic choice whether to let bullet points go full width, even with a short second or last line, or to try and wrap them for consistency. As Bob notes, the first is more conventional. A list of tightly wrapped items can look... unbalanced.