For Magic Mouse or a trackpad: Option-Command-scroll. Option-drag to select objects outward from the starting point. Select Bulleted & Numbered Lists from the drop-down menu. Click the Type menu at the top of the window. Type or paste your list into the text area. However, here is also a more exhaustive list, in case I missed your favorites. In page layout documents, drag from a blank part of the page around objects. How to add bullet points in InDesign Select the type tool (T) Drag across your canvas to create a text area. Those are keyboard shortcuts that everybody should remember to speed up their work in InDesign. InDesign has so many shortcuts that they didn’t fit into a single A4, so the printable cheat sheet above includes only the ones that I use the most and that I believe are the most important for day to day work. A full list of InDesign keyboard shortcuts You can also find a ready-to-be-printed list of all the InDesign shortcuts there are on Pariah Burke’s blog.

Remember: You can also create your own InDesign shortcuts or personalise the ones that already exist. The Autocorrect text that comes pre-populated in my version of LO also has :bullet: so just type that if you can’t remember the other shortcut, it might work. The shortcut is hold the Alt key and type U+2022 then release Alt. Make sure you have a look at it if you are using Illustrator. The shortcut is to type U+2022 then press Alt+X. This will help me memorize a few more shortcuts and be even more productive.īesides this list, I've already created a printable cheat sheet with Illustrator shortcuts. Unfortunately, in Illustrator you cannot create keyboard shortcuts for paragraph styles either, in contrast to InDesign, so when creating bulleted lists, you. an en dash might be wider than a bullet is). In order to help myself remember the most common ones, I decided to make a list of those that I use daily and make a single A4 printable cheat sheet, so I can always have them ready on my desk when I don’t remember them. Added bonus (or a drawback, depending on your needs) is that the indentation doesnt change if you use bullet points of different width (e.g.

Short command for bullet point