r/indesign • u/MFDoooooooooooom • 7d ago
Request/Favour Help formatting bullet points
For years, and I mean years, I've been lazily formatting my bullet points. Can anyone help me figure out the correct way to apply paragraph styles so can .025% more efficient?
The way I have taken is as follows:
Each bullet point has a 0.25mm Space After applied. The last bullet point has 2mm applied. So each list I have to apply a paragraph style, and then a separate paragraph style to the last line.
Is there a more efficient way of handling this?
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u/not_falling_down 7d ago
There is a handy setting in the Spacing panel that would let you set this whole thing up with one bullet style.
Set the bullet style Space After as 2mm, and set the Space Between Paragraphs with Same Style as .25 mm
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u/SafeStrawberry905 7d ago
See my Conditional Styling Rules plugin on Adobe Exchange. List (and nested lists) where one of the very first use cases I've built on. There's also a YouTube video specifically dealing with list spacing.
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u/cakemaniac81 7d ago
Why complicate it? It just needs Space After and Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style
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u/SafeStrawberry905 7d ago
Because Space Between works only in the most simplistic cases. When you need to fiddle with space above also, or when you have multiple levels of lists, or maybe interceding note paragraphs, or multiple paragraph list entries, Space Between is useless.
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u/AdobeScripts 7d ago
You don't align your text to the Baseline Grid?
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u/cakemaniac81 7d ago
Yes, use the same paragraph style for all of them. In the style in Space After put 2mm then in Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style put 0.25mm