Right aligned lists / bullet points

[FutureLights]

I have a list, but I want the bullet points on the right instead of the left. Can I do that?

[MikeTO]

I'm almost certain that this has come up before - I think somebody asked about a centre-justified list with bullets at the start and end of each item - but I think the answer was you'd have to add the trailing bullet manually.

Someday if Publisher gets right-to-left text, you could set the paragraph to RTL and the bullet would be on the right but then override that with a character style with LTR text so the text would read normally. That would work.

Cheers

[FutureLights]

8 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

I'm almost certain that this has come up before - I think somebody asked about a centre-justified list with bullets at the start and end of each item - but I think the answer was you'd have to add the trailing bullet manually.

Someday if Publisher gets right-to-left text, you could set the paragraph to RTL and the bullet would be on the right but then override that with a character style with LTR text so the text would read normally. That would work.

Cheers

I can't be the first person to want to do this, but I couldn't find anything on Google or the forms.

I can do that, I was just hoping for a more elegant solution. Thanks!

[thomaso]

37 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

add the trailing bullet manually.

27 minutes ago, FutureLights said:

I can do that, I was just hoping for a more elegant solution.

A workaround could use an invisible style + a copy of the numbered/bulleted list left aligned. For instance:

1. The list is active but has an invisible style assigned:

2. A copied frame, set to left-align, shows only the list characters in a desired style while now the text has no colour and thus does not appear.

3. Feel free to remove the text via Find & Replace if the frame width or the hidden text content disturbs your workflow.

[walt.farrell]

Or one could use a Table, with the text (on the left) in one column, and the bullets or numbers (on the right) in another.