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: Is there a way to align bullet point indent in InDesign paragraph styles? I've come across this quite a few times now. Whilst working on a long document with several areas with bullet points,

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I've come across this quite a few times now. Whilst working on a long document with several areas with bullet points, it's obviously more efficient to style the bullet points using Paragraph Styles. However since I can't predict how much space each bullet point will have or how long each bullet point is then I often come across this problem:


As you can see the second line aligns itself to the bullet point rather than the content of the bullet point. I've tried to use first line indent, left indent, tab position but this does everything but what I'm trying to achieve. See the following screenshots





There seems to be no obvious option here to achieve what I'm aiming for. Have I overlooked something?

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@Vandalay110

Insert your curser after the bullet in the line that wraps and press command + vertical bar (also known as pipe). This will align all subsequent lines of text in that text string with the start of your first line. It's a case by case solution but sometimes easier than writing an indent rule.

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@Jamie315

First set Left Indent to where you'd like the text to start from and then set First Line Indent minus that amount.

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