Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 447)

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Tab Position
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Position settings
The Left Indent, First Line Indent, and Tab Position settings in the Bullets And Numbering dialog box are paragraph attributes. For
that reason, changing these settings in the Paragraph panel also changes bulleted and numbered list formats.
Activates the tab position to create space between the bullet or number and the start of the list item.
By default, bullets and numbers inherit some of their text formatting from the first character in the paragraph to which they’re attached. If the first
character in one paragraph is different from the first characters in other paragraphs, the numbering or bullet character may appear inconsistent with
the other list items. If this is not the formatting you desire, create a character style for numbers or bullets and apply it to your list by using the
Bullets And Numbering dialog box.
Italicized first word of step 3 causes numbering to be italicized as well, unless you create character style for numbers and apply it to list.
Change bullet characters
If you don’t want to use one of the existing bullet characters, you can add other bullet characters to the Bullet Character grid. A bullet character
that is available in one font may not be available in another font. You can choose whether the font is remembered with any bullet character you
add.
If you want to use a bullet found in a specific font (such as the pointing hand from Dingbats), be sure to set the bullet to remember that font. If you
use a basic bullet character, it’s probably best not to remember the font, because most fonts have their own version of that bullet character.
Depending on whether you select the Remember Font With Bullet option, a bullet you add can reference either a Unicode value and a specific font
family and style, or just a Unicode value.
Bullets that reference only the Unicode value (without a remembered font) appear with a red “u” indicator.
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