Request for advice on spacings in paragraph styles for bulleted lists

[GarryP]

I have some text formatted with paragraph styles as shown in the attached image.
I would prefer the bulleted text to not have spacing between each paragraph (so that it takes up less space).

I might have been tempted to have two styles - Bullet First Line (with spacing), Bullet Subsequent Lines (without spacing) - but that seems wrong in 2018. (It's what I have done in other software.)

Can anyone advise on a good way to do what I want?

[Dave Harris]

Use a style for the bullet paragraphs, and tick the Ignore before and after space for same styles checkbox in the Spacing section.

[GarryP]

I tried that and nothing happens.
When I go back into the style, the option I checked has gone back to a little white box.
See attached GIF.
Am I doing something wrong?

[Aammppaa]

Seems to work ticking the "Ignore space for same styles" box in the Paragraph Panel, but not in the Text Styles > Edit Text Style dialogue.

[Dave Harris]

Is this on Windows? When you change the box, do the Style settings change to include Ignore space for same styles: On? If not, then it sounds like the dialog isn't setting the flag. You may be able to set it on the paragraph and then update the style from the paragraph.

[Aammppaa]

Yep this is Windows.

You are spot on: the check box changes but the Style Settings box doesn't change - the flag isn't being set.

And your proposed workaround works!

[GarryP]

Confirmed. Workaround seems to have done the job. (Yes, I was on Windows too.)

[Dave Harris]

Thanks, I've logged the text style editor to be fixed.