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Hi, can you help me understand why this is happening:

 

I have a set of bullet points which I have set with No Style so they retain the color style of the paragraph style. I also have a character color style which modifies the color of text. 

When I use this character style on the first word of a bulletpoint, the bullet style is affected. This does not happen when applying the style to other words in the bulletpoint. 

Is there a way to resolve this without having to create another bullet style based on the default color ?

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The style of the first character of the text following the bullet determines the style of the bullet itself.

You should have a Paragraph Text Style for the bulleted paragraphs. In that Paragraph Text Style, look in the section called Bullets & Numbering. In there, you will find a field to specify the Character Text Style of the bullet. I think you might be able to specify the same Paragraph Text Style in that field. If not, you will need to make a new Character Text Style, which you could Base on the Paragraph Text Style. Either way will make sure that the bullet keeps the same style as the paragraph.

-- Walt
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Posted

Thank you for the help. Based on what you said, I was able to figure out the correct step is to set the paragraph style to appear in Both character and paragraph styles.

The bullet styles only looks at Character styles by default and when you said to select the Paragraph style it occurred to me to set the option for the paragraph style to appear in both panels.

I do have one more issue with these bullets 😅

You see this video below how the image's text wrap options for the hanging line as well as the distance of the bullet are not maintained.  Are there any options available that would help maintain the style in this scenario?  I want to avoid creating separate text frames whenever possible. 

 

 

 

 

 

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You're welcome.

Regarding the text wrapping you show: I recall a discussion about that before, but I don't recall what we concluded. Sorry.

From memory, the problem arises because distances are set relative to the left-edge of the text frame, and when the image is in place the text has already exceeded that distance.

Once option might be to define a second set of text styles, that increase the specified distance to account for the image's presence. But that would take a separate set of text styles for each width image.

Another option might be to create additional text frames. have one frame that sits above the image, one that sits to the side, and one that sits below. Link them so text flows from one to the other. Your original text styles will work automatically in all 3 frames.

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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