The fastest way to combine a paragraph with side numbering

[Vraja Devi Dasi]

Hey everyone!

Searching for your good advice!

I have a text that goes something like this:

text 88

some text poem     very beautiful written

just filling the lines    for your understanding

so, now I need to turn it to this:

text 88          some text poem     very beautiful written

                     just filling the lines    for your understanding

My idea was to create a text frame with the text number and anchor it to the text.

Is there a faster way to do that???

The rest of the text is in one column.

[manal shanableh]

You can use tabs,

you have used spaces, from type> show hidden characters to see how its done, the first is what you did, the second with tabs

[Vraja Devi Dasi]

The thing is I have 700 verses like that to change

I have 18 chapters each in a separate file. In total it's 700 verses but in different chapters, each different number of verses.

the text number is in Paragraph style and the text itself also in a different paragraph style.

[manal shanableh]

Also you can do it as table with hidden frames like below, so you can center the text within the cell.

[manal shanableh · Accepted solution]

if you mean a side numbering with the word (text) before numbering, from paragraph panel menu> Bullets and Numbering

add the word text before the number under numbering style.

[Vraja Devi Dasi]

Thanks, I'll see if that works, the thing is that I forgot to write is that I have 700 instances like that in the book I'm working on!!!

[BobLevine]

You're better off with an anchored object. Very easy to apply with object styles.

https://indesignsecrets.com/inquestion-making-sideheads.php

[Vraja Devi Dasi]

The problem with this solution is that sometimes I have verses that are together, for example:

text 1-3