#Number press tutorial update#

So for example if you click at the end of this paragraph, you can just hit a return or enter and start typing, and you'll see the numbers update automatically. And the good news is that this will update automatically. Now if it's a very simple list like this you're done, that's all you need to do. If you're into web design, you probably call this an ordered list. Let's go ahead and select all this text again, and choose that instead. But how about automatic numbers? Well, see up here right next to the bullets button, there's a numbered list button. And click out here to de-select it see, wasn't so hard to get cool bullets after all. Obviously you can use millimeters or any other measurement system here. Let's change the first line indent, from minus one P six to just minus one PICA.

Now the last thing we need to do is change those indents. And you'll see that it's added to our list here. And you can just scroll through here, until you find the one you want. So, these are all the characters inside that font. Then in the font style field, I need to type regular. I'll just type min, and it guesses the rest.

In this case, let's choose a font that has a lot of interesting characters like minion pro. So you need to tell InDesign what font you want to pull the character from. Now bullets are always characters from within a font. Those are for you to make your own custom-bullets. Anyway, if you see it, you can just ignore it. If you're curious, you can go to my website, which is, and you can just use the search field to look for, weird bullet character. And I have no idea what that is, but, I did finally figure out why it shows up for some people and not for others. There's one more bullet character here, this thing that looks like an A with some accents. And I'll move this dialogue box out of the way, and you can see, that looks pretty good. Let's select that, and then turn on the preview checkbox. The regular old round one, or an asterisk or a diamond, I don't know who would use those, this one I kind of like, this one that is a double-angled bracket. Down here, you can see a number of different bullet characters that we could use. By holding down that modifier key, we get options for what our bullets are going to look like. And to get there, just hold down the option or alt key, on the keyboard, and then click on the bullets button one more time. So to change those bullets, we need to go to the bullets dialog box. I want something with a little bit more of class. And second, we're using these really dumb-looking rounded bullets. First, the bullet is hanging really far away from the text. So, now there's two main problems that I see. See how the bullet hangs out here, and the text flows indented to the right event. And the bullets are all set up with what's called, a hanging indent. Then we'll just come over to the right, and click this bulleted list button. Now to add an automatic bullet, we want to make sure that control panel is set to paragraph mode, which it is.

#Number press tutorial plus#

Let's go ahead and zoom in by pressing command or control plus a few times. Now let's double click on this frame to switch to the type tool, and then I'll just drag over these paragraphs. I have my long document file open, and let's press option or alt to page down, to jump to the next spread. 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.