: How to do "Indent to here" / "Hanging Indent" in Illustrator You can use "Indent to here" / "Hanging Indent" in InDesign by Command-Backslash. Is there a way to do this in Illustrator without

@Chiappetta793

My way : set left indent (example : 60pt) than create bullet from rectangle tools just copy paste them. Don't forget to activate "Show grid" to make sure the bullets are in line.

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@Welton168

I've found if you copy the bullet and following space and paste it into the beginning of the following lines (with a soft return), then delete the bullet, the spacing seems to stay. Thus including the full tab width on each line. Ideal for a short paragraph, but I understand if it's a huge list it could get tricky.

Not the tidiest fix from Illustrator, but it's the one I use.

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@Annie732

To align the second line of text after a bullet, place your cursor before the first word after the bullet (in the first line of text) and use the shortcut Ctrl + backslash key.

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@Turnbaugh909

Just like InDesign.....

Select your text and bring up the Tabs window (Window > Type > Tabs).

Drag the bottom portion of the left marker inward. This is your "to here" mark. Then you can drag the top portion to the right to indent all the lines.

You do need to also set a left side tab in the same position as the bottom half marker in order to get the bullet spacing to line up. (This specific part is unlike InDesign).



Once you set this visually, you can then refine it via the Paragraph Panel. For me, it just helps to see it visually, then tweak numbers slightly if needed.

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@Deb5748823

I used a negative value for the "First-line indent" it works like charm

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@Martha945

Unfortunately, this is not possible in Illustrator, as it is in InDesign as well featured as a Special Character (Type > Insert Special Character > Other > Indent to Here – the effect is that the indent automatically adjusts if the text before it changes), not as a paragraph attribute, and Illustrator doesn't feature such special paragraph-adjusting characters. The easiest way to do it manually in Illustrator is most probably using the Tabs window and setting tabs manually to be as close as possible to the character. If you want to be pixel-perfect, you can copy the text before the indentation and paste it as a new Point Type text object (the one not having a text frame) and read its width, which you can now add as the tab stop position.

If you only need indentation for bullet points, however, it doesn't require this kind of action. Just adjust the Left indent as desired for the indented part of the text and add as much negative First line indent to adjust the bullet back in line with the text frame's left side. You can just select the whole text frame or even multiple text frames to adjust all bullets simultaneously. And as in InDesign, you can also create a Paragraph style out of it to keep all the text frame indentations perfectly same. Added bonus (or a drawback, depending on your needs) is that the indentation doesn't change if you use bullet points of different width (e.g. an en dash might be wider than a bullet is).

Unfortunately, in Illustrator you cannot create keyboard shortcuts for paragraph styles either, in contrast to InDesign, so when creating bulleted lists, you'll have to apply the style by selecting it with a mouse from the style list. Also, you cannot make the bullet itself as a paragraph style setting as you can in InDesign, so you'll always have to type the bullet itself in first. Copy-pasting of course handles the copying of the paragraph style and the bullet at the same time.

If the text is very long and complicated and you need to use the Indent to Here feature very often, there is always the option to do the text in InDesign and the drawings in Illustrator, and paste one on the another as PDF.

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@Candy945

Alternatively, use Type > Paragraph and give "First-line left indent" a negative value. This moves the bullet out of the text box and the rest is aligned. To get the text back inside the box, just add normal Left indent as much as you gave negative for the first line.

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@Sue6373160

To piggyback on SentientEnergy's solution, if you have a lot of text that you would like to apply hanging indents to, once you've edited the indent settings the way you'd like, it's advisable to create a paragraph style.
To do so, place your cursor in a properly styled paragraph and go to Window>Type>Paragraph Styles to open the Paragraph Styles panel. Click on the flyout menu in the upper right of the panel, choose New Paragraph Style…, name your style in the ensuing dialog, and click OK.
To apply the style to other paragraphs, select them and then click on the style name in the Paragraph Styles panel.

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@Shanna688

not a 100% sure if this is what you're asking, but if it is, then yay! You can adust indents in the Paragraph panel. If this isn't what you're asking then please show me what you're talking about (screenshot) and I'll see if there's anything I can do.



Round 2: I don't think there is an easy shortcut like the one you mentioned, not that I'm aware of anyway (and I looked!) But, perhaps this could be of help:

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