Bullets, Numbering and Indents

Daniel is correct. You don't have the tab markers on the ruler as you do in PPT (or Word, InDesign and just about any other application that deals with text) but you can set the Indentation in the Paragraph options dialog. Under Indentation > Special > (Select "Hanging") > and set the distance in inches. What you can't do is have multiple levels of custom indents.

Related to this is basic tab functionality; it is very limited. In addition to the hanging indent issues there are no right-aligned, center-aligned, or decimal-aligned tabs. This makes it very difficult to set up lists with columns, like a price list with the items aligned to the left and the prices aligned to the right. I've put in my request a long time ago for this functionality and urge anyone who cares about typography to do so as well.

I see this thread is two years stale (pre Storyline 3, I assume) but hanging indent still does not work (11/21/17) , even though a dialog box includes that control that I have tried to use over and over again. Lack of such basic formatting is pretty sad.

Hi John,

Sorry to hear that you are having difficulty and you are certainly correct in assuming that this was pre-SL3.

Perhaps I'm not understanding what a hanging-indent is or is it that it is not available as a Paragraph formatting option as it is in Word?

Thanks for your feedback :)

Thanks Leslie,

Correct: Am trying to do a hanging indent as Word allows for a numbered list: The first line (containing the number) is at the margin, and all following lines are indented.

Storyline has a control for this at Home > Paragraph > Line spacing > Line Spacing options ..., but it doesn't work. I have selected Hanging indent and applied a number of different values, but the selected paragraph remains flush left.

Hi John,

I took a look at adjusting these in Storyline 3 myself, and you'll see they do take the adjustment here. My video shows with bullets but I also tested it with a numbered list and saw the same results. 

If you want to share your exact needs, and/or a copy of your .story file I can also give it a test there.

Hey John - I did file this as a possible bug with our team since it obviously performs differently than the Word formatting. Looks like paragraphs and numbers and bullets have different results as well based on Ashley's testing. 

I'll admit, not a feature I've ever used :)

Ashley and Leslie,

This is just not working as advertised for me. Please take a look at the attached, done in Storyline 3.

Thank you John.

As I mentioned above, I did report this to our team. I'll include your example as well.

Thanks Leslie,

I should have directed this to Ashley: In her reply, she demonstrated that this is working for her and I would like to know how she gets this to work so that I can get hanging indents to work for us as well.

Gotcha John - no worries. Looks like paragraph and bullets work differently. In the example Ashley shared above, and we discussed this internally, she used bullets and it's indenting the first line. The hanging indent on the paragraph doesn't seem to be working and you want the lines below the first line like Word does from what I understand :)