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015 Aligning numbered lists by decimal points

015 Aligning numbered lists by decimal points - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

015 Aligning numbered lists by decimal points

David Blatner: I thought this numbered list look pretty good, but Anne-Marie told me otherwise. She wants all of these little decimal points to line up. Can you do that in InDesign? Sure, but it's not at all obvious how to do it. Let me show you. First, let me go ahead and zoom in here and now I'm going to open my Paragraph Styles panel because all of these are set up as a paragraph style. In fact it's called the numbered list paragraph style and you too it should be using paragraph styles. Make sure that whenever you make a list, make it as a paragraph style. Much easier to edit later. So I'll right-click on numbered list and I'll choose Edit and we can see that the dialog box opens up over here. I'll click on Bullets and Numbering and now I am going to focus down here at the bottom of the dialog box in the Bullet or Number Position area. The obvious thing to do is to change the Alignment pop-up menu to Right. That should make all of those will right aligned and align up all those…

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