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Deleting spaces in bullets but instead it adds a space?

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    • December 6, 2022 at 3:06 pm #14375909
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      The title sums it up, but I’ve a screen cap too. Does anyone else have this issue or is it just me?
      Setup: Paste MSWord or Keynote/PPT bullet list into InDesign. The bullets come in as characters (not a bullet list) with extra spaces. When I delete the extra spaces InDesign will add an extra space as you see. It’s pretty tedious.
      Solution: Remove the spaces in GREP, but really? Why not just delete? Is this a feature?

      https://www.dropbox.com/s/o57fc8va2p1i56b/Recording.mp4?dl=0

    • December 6, 2022 at 3:13 pm #14375910
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Yeah, that can drive you crazy! InDesign is trying to be helpful, but… not helpful in this situation.
      The solution, I believe, is to open Preferences, click on the Type tab, and disable “Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words”

    • December 6, 2022 at 3:25 pm #14375911
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      David, you are brilliant. Thanks for that tip.

    • December 7, 2022 at 11:47 am #14375925
      Sam Cowan
      Participant

      I know it is not always possible, but I find it helpful to turn off the bullets in Word etc. right before I copy the text, no extraneous bullet characters and space when pasting.

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