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332 - Add space around lists with spans

332 - Add space around lists with spans - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

332 - Add space around lists with spans

- [Instructor] So this is a common problem that you've probably run into. I have a list here. In this case, it has bullets, but it could be numbered. And I want to add a little bit of extra space before the list and after the list, but not in between the list items. So the typical way to handle this is to have three different paragraph styles. One for the main list, and then another one that is based on that list style but applies some space before, like this one over here inside my Paragraph Styles panel. Here's the list bullet, space before. See how everything's the same except there's a space before value? Here, I'll double-click on this paragraph style to open the Paragraph Style Options dialog box, and you can see here, in Style Settings, it's the same style plus space before. I applied that space before inside the indents and spacing pane over here. See? 12 points of space before. So I'll click OK. You'll see that I have another paragraph style down here with space after in its…

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