Bullet Point Formatting

Hello, all:

I'm working on a resume from one of the Pages templates and I'm having trouble formatting the bullet points. When a bulleted line wraps to the line below the bullet point, it justifies the text on the second line below the actual bullet picture rather than the indented text next to the bullet on the first line.

An example is like this:
+* Hello, this is a line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line line second line+

Where I would like for that word "second" to line up with "Hello" rather than the bullet.

I know it's gotta be an easy fix, I've just gone inspector crazy working on this thing and would appreciate the help.

Thanks all.

MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 20, 2008 2:05 PM

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Nov 21, 2008 8:14 PM in response to VismyH

It seems that Pages' Lists do not wrap the text correctly under bullets.

You will have to set up your own manual "hanging indents".

Select your paragraph and go:

+Inspector > Text tab (T) > Tabs > First line "0", Left "1cm", Right "0"+

This will make the first line start hard left (0) with the bullet (shift 8).

A tab next will jump to the 1cm indent mark.

and with a "soft return" (Shift Return) or word wrap the 2nd line will also stay indented 1cm.

Change the figures to whatever you want, and save this as a style.

I tried to straighten out the List formatting but the problem persists. Put it down as another example of how the Pages' programmers like to tread the path less trodden.

Nov 22, 2008 12:21 PM in response to Jerrold Green1

When I read the original question, I was not sure that the OP was working with the list tool.
I responded for bullets inserted by hand.

If he really uses the list format, the tool behaves correctly with bullets.

I'm not satisfied of its behaviour with numbers or letters.

The text offset is from the end of the number or text so there is no correct vertical alignment.

The alignment is OK for one digit numbers, then it is different for two digits numbers then it is different for three digits numbers.
From my point of view it's an anomaly but I will not call it a bug.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 22 novembre 2008 21:21:15)

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