From the course: InDesign: Advanced Styles
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Right align numbers in lists - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Advanced Styles
Right align numbers in lists
- [Instructor] Here I have a number list on the right, I have my numbers right aligned and you can see that the one digit numbers align with the two digit numbers on their right edge. On the left, that isn't the case, and that's what I want to achieve. So I'm going to zoom in on this and, let's just reposition the page over on the left, I'm going to edit the style definition, come to my bullets and numbering, so rather than using a left alignment for the numbers only, I'm going to change that to right alignment. And then I'm going to adjust the position of the first line indent, so currently the first line indent is bringing the numbers all the way back to the left edge and I need to reduce that. I'm actually going to press the up arrow to reduce that and you can see that the single digit numbers are now moving over to the right. And I want to go to minus eight points in this case. Now if we look carefully at the numbers, they're still not quite aligning and that is because I have…
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