You really want the bottom of the letters in Bullet 2a to line up with those in Line 2, but as you can see from the red line I added to the baseline of Line 2, the alignment is way off after only a few bullet lines. Here’s how to fix that and create perfect table bullets.īy Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow (aka Wordman) Then, when you want to perform the same spacing on bullets that appear later, highlight those bullets and select Format>Formatting>Paste Formatting (or control-command-v, which preserves the other text formatting in the Scrivener bullets).We often need to put short bulleted lists in tables into our proposals, but it’s hard to get them to line up with regular text. Update: You can copy bullet formatting by performing the above tweak on a bulleted section, and then copying the section, and selecting Format>Formatting>Copy Formatting. It may be related to some other setting I have enabled (including my Scrivener blockquote settings) but I don’t have enough time or patience to figure it out. This leads to the bullet spacing being too wide. I’ve played with Preferences>Formatting and Format>Text>Tabs and Indents to adjust the default indent and tab settings. Each time I highlight text and apply bullet settings, the defaults change back to. One thing I haven’t been able to figure out is how to set this as the default for new Scrivener files (UPDATE: I figured it out, as described in the next paragraph). When you compile, the bullets should placed according to the adjusted setting … but if not, use the “preserve indentation” setting described in my post about Scrivener blockquote formatting. 15″ difference) some of these larger bullet formats will be forced to the next tab marker, adding an additional. If the indent marker is too close to the tab marker (for instance, just. 2″ before the tab marker, which gives enough space for larger Scrivener bullet types, including numbers with the close parens symbol. I recommend adjusting the indentation to. Let go of the indent marker when it is at the position you want.A vertical line will appear in the highlighted text, showing the new position of the bullet (see screenshot below).

With the text still highlighted, grab the indentation marker (which looks like a right-pointing triangle) and pull it to the right. On the ruler you will see the markers for the first indent and tabs.It looks weird on the printed page (I export to PDF for CreateSpace and LSI). The problem: The distance between bullets and indented text in Scrivener is too large. File this entry under Frustrating Scrivener Quirks: A quick lesson on how to adjust Scrivener bullet spacing.

Word change indent size after number