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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'll do the boring, mundane work for you, right? So 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 opt or alt + page down to jump to the next spread. Now let's double click on this frame to switch to the Type tool. And then I'll just drag over these paragraphs. Let's go ahead and zoom in by pressing cmd or ctrl + "plus key"[+] a few times. Now to add an automatic bullet, we want to make sure the Control Panel is set to Paragraph mode, which is it. Then we'll just come over to the right and click this bulleted list button. That's it. They all gets bullets automatically, and the bullets are all set up with what's called a hanging indent. See how the bullet hangs out here, and the text flows…

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