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How Can I Tame Bullets in Split Columns?

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    • June 1, 2016 at 7:28 am #85327
      Anonymous
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      In InDesign CC, in a “Split 2” column, is there any elegant way to:

      Keep the text of a bullet together (without carrying over to the other column)?

      Give the right column more “weight” in terms of balance?

      Screenshot:
      https://screencast.com/t/yeqP5vO8Ox

    • June 1, 2016 at 7:40 am #85328
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Can someone please edit the typo in my title? It won’t let me! :)

    • June 1, 2016 at 8:01 am #85331
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I fixed the typo (assuming you meant “tame”).

      The Keep Options features should keep the paragraph together.

      Thought, in older versions of InDesign it was broken:
      https://creativepro.com/making-split-columns-honor-keep-options.php

      No way to tell it to give the right column more “weight” though.

    • June 1, 2016 at 8:16 am #85332
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Hi David,

      Thank you for your reply.

      How do you deal with this situation?

      Do you just let InDesign do its thing?

    • June 1, 2016 at 8:19 am #85333
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Regarding the “weight” issue, that is.

    • June 1, 2016 at 11:14 am #85345
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You can add a column break character at the beginning of one of the paragraphs if you need to push it into the 2nd column.
      See:
      https://creativepro.com/unequal-columns-frame.php

    • June 1, 2016 at 3:04 pm #85364
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      I always go the line/paragraph I want to move and go to “paragraph” and tell it to start a new column. I never use the column break characters because we aren’t allowed to use them because of eBook issues down the road.

    • July 13, 2016 at 6:47 am #86472
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Dwayne,

      I’m not sure what you mean by “paragraph”? Can you be more specific?

    • July 13, 2016 at 6:53 am #86473
      Ari Singer
      Member

      He meant that in the Paragraph Keep Options there’s an option to set up so that this paragraph always starts in a column.

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