Create nested Bullet and Numbered Lists in Adobe InDesign

Learning the correct way to create nested bullet and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign will speed up your design process. You will learn how to manage nested lists in the correct way in Adobe InDesign.

Bullet Lists

Bullet lists are a great way to get your point across. Your readers will remember the main points of your article with an easy to reference goto should they need to refer back to a bullet. In the create nested bullet list part of this tutorial you will learn:

• How to create a bullet list?
• How to edit the bullet character? (So you can use whatever character you want for a bullet point, be it a start or diamond or trianble or whatever.)
• How to link your Character Styles to the bullet?
• How to assign your bullet list to paragraph styles.

Numbered Lists

Once you have completed learning about the bullet lists you can move on to numbered lists, which some call outlines lists. So in the numbered lists part of this tutorial you will learn:

• How to create a numbered list?
• How to create a nested number list?
• How to reset the numbering of the nested numbered list so it resets for every new list?
• How to add the Level 1 number to the nested numbered list?

Should you want to follow all you can download the nested lists exercise file.