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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve

032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve

Here is an interesting situation. Let's say that you are formatting some text as a bulleted list, like I have here on the right. And it looks pretty nice. I'm using Automatic Bullets in InDesign with a special bullet character as the bullet. Now let's say that you want this bulleted text to wrap around a curve, like this guy. If I select this object and I go to Text Wrap, and I say we just want a normal square text wrap, wrap around the bounding box, then when I select this object with the Selection tool, and we drag it to the right, and turn on wrap around bounding box, then the bullets behave normally. They just move over. Well, actually we're getting a little issue here with the hanging indent. So that's actually a problem. But even more so, is what happens when you want it to wrap around a curve. So if I said wrap around the shape of this curve, now even the space between the bullet and the first line of text changes, let alone losing the hanging indent. So here it was with the…

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