How to set up Multi level numbering and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign

It's easy to make a numbered list in InDesign, but setting up multiple indented levels is a bit less intuitive. Learn how in this video!

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[ageis]

I can't tell you how many times your videos have helped me on various projects. Thank you so much!

[tonydee]

Thank you so much! It is so weird to have to do this manually, especially after using Word for such a long time. Perhaps Adobe need to write a piece of code that allow users to use some default numbering and bullets without having to do all this work. I spent a good 10 mins trying to do this on my own, before resorting to YouTube for the solution.

[LuisSanchez-cmyi]

Paragraph styles have ALWAYS confused me, but your video was so easy to follow and to the point! Subscribing, thanks for helping me with this project! <3

[sphyoni]

This tutorial is fantastic, it has helped me massively when I was trying to workout how to fix a list that had gone wrong!

[CrossChopChris]

So useful. I've come back to this tutorial a couple times this week, and it's been a huge help. Thanks, Anne!

[donovanmultimediadeveloper]

Instant subscribe after watching this! So helpful and to the point. THANK YOU.

[daveelder]

Thank you for helping me to sort out this, great instructions to sort out a document I was working on. Excellent

[artistscreek]

great tutorial, you have explained it in a very easy way, thanks for the tutorial

[davidtoms]

Excellent tutorial with a very clear explanation. Extremely helpful. Thank you!

[browneye]

Yes, this is what I need to know. Thank you very much for sharing.

[daria_lazurenko]

this is so helpful and straight to the point, love it! :)

[ajaykumarsingh]

Thanks Ma'am,
This video is helpful to me.

[ravifleming]

Thank you. This exactly what I need to know. ❤️

[ebenasare]

thanks so much for this video. can u do one that creates a table of content based on paragraph styles please?

[simpleenadia]

my letters won't restart ... they just continue ...what am i doing wrong?

[Evans]

Awesome. thanks a lot lol, will wait for more

[scottalston]

Great Tutorial. I would also love one on how to number headings for chapters with lower level sections such as Chapter 1, Section 1.1, Sub-section 1.1.1. etc

[ernestochaveznuno]

Excellent! Your explanation is highly pedagogical, congratulations. 👍🙂

I have three questions, could you please give me some guidance:

1.) if, instead of using one of the preset formats, I want to use a different one or modify one of the existing ones, how should I do it?
For example: I would like to use the number format in the first level: 1. For the second level: 1.1. For the third level 1.1.1: etc. But I can't find how to do that from the presets, what I do see, are a series of "weird" characters "^#.^t", And maybe that's the key....
2.) If I want to add a parenthesis after the number, what kind of character do I need to place and where?
3.) Will there be any Adobe article explaining these "weird" symbols for those of us who don't know about them?


Thank you very much!

[connernielander]

Great tutorial even though adobe needs to make this way easier to do. Absolutely crazy it's this hard to do

[arifzulkifli]

Hi Ann, how to do a numbering with parentheses? Many thanks