: Indesign numbering new line & indentation I am getting crazy with these two things and after some days of getting nothing from Web search and experimentation I come to you. I am using Indesign

@Murphy569

Although I don't have experience with GREP, I think you might be out of luck if you aren't willing to consider using additional Paragraph Styles. By definition, these "Paragraph Styles" apply to whole paragraphs only.
Regarding the Chapter/Title formatting (your 1st item), you can obviously achieve what you want by manually adding a line break Shift-Enter, but I'm assuming you are looking for an automated solution. Unfortunately, I don't believe there is one within InDesign.
For the first-paragraph formatting (your 2nd item), it sounds like something I'd call a Story Style or something. I believe as far as InDesign is concerned, each paragraph is completely oblivious to the content before or after it, so styles cannot be applied to the "first paragraph" as you desire.



If you are adding this content directly to InDesign, I believe you'll find you could create your document with 4 paragraph styles: Chapter, Title, First Paragraph and Normal Paragraph, and then apply all of these styles very easily using one or both of the the Next Style and Shortcut Key options within the General panel of each paragraph style settings box.
If you already have the content elsewhere though, and are simply trying to format the content inside InDesign, I can see that this is not a good solution.

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