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Adding automatic bullets and numbers

Adding automatic bullets and numbers - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding automatic bullets and numbers

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- [Instructor] You use a computer so that it will do the boring, mundane work for you, right? So the next time you need to add a bunch of bullets or numbers in front of a list of paragraphs, don't type them manually. It's far more efficient to let InDesign add them for you. I have my long document file open, and let's press Option or Alt+Page Down to jump to the next spread. Now I'll double click to switch to the type tool and I'll select a bunch of this text over here. Now let's press Command or Control+Plus a couple of times to zoom in on this. To add bullets, up here in the control panel we want to make sure we're in paragraph formatting mode, so I'll select that. Then to add the automatic bullets I'm going to come over here to the middle of the panel and just click the add bullet button. That's it, the bullets get added automatically and the bullets are all set up with what's called a hanging indent. See how the…

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