Comments on: Decimal Align Numbered Lists

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:54:37 +0000

Yuvaraj, you would have to place a tab before the number and use a decimal align tab.

By: Yuvaraj

Yuvaraj — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:31:43 +0000

Hi David,
It’s nice to hear this option, but I am using CS2 only, what I have to do in this case.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:26:30 +0000

Note that someone emailed me asking why this didn’t work in CS2… it’s because it’s a CS3 feature. I have now added a mention of that in the post above.

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:18:16 +0000

Sweet little trick there. Do the paragraph’s tab settings define the indents’ values, are they always the same, or is there some other mysterious force involved there?

Maybe worth sharing: yesterday I had to make a ‘checklist’ for a customer. To get the checkboxes in the lists I made a paragraph style with a bulleted list defined. The bullet style was a Webdings square, and I then increased the font’s leading so the squares wouldn’t be attached.
It’s far easier than manually aligning boxes, especially when the customer’s as indecisive as mine was

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:50:04 +0000

You know, I knew how to get the numbers aligned correctly (it was in one of my CS3 video workshop tutorials in fact) but I was never quite sure of the voodoo involved with the indenting, that is, exactly why you had to enter a left indent so high … ah-ha! … thanks!

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:38:11 +0000

Aha! I have struggled with this very issue in the last weeks, cursing mightily! I shall implement it right away in sever files. So thanks a LOT, David!

By: Wa Veghel

Wa Veghel — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:25:41 +0000

Nice on! One of those thing I didn’t have to use to present day so didn’t realize this to work this way. Now I know!