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• • January 24, 2017 at 12:15 pm #91540
    Miguel Lluesma

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    Hello,
    ok so here is my problem and I am sure somebody must know the solution. I have a numbered list that goes up to 71. I need to create a style for the numbering that is a number inside a circle, the circle fill is red while the number is white and the number is centered inside the circle. I have no idea how to create this and for the last one hour I have been trying a couple of tricks using paragraph rules but this did not work and the other one was using a font called combinumerals, though this last one worked except it does not create a circle but half a circle so it did not work. Can anybody help me on this?

  • January 24, 2017 at 12:43 pm #91542
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    There are many tricks, but honestly the easiest and best is just to find a font that has numbers in circles. If you search for “font with numbers in circles” you’ll find a bunch. :-)

  • January 24, 2017 at 1:37 pm #91544
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    I answered here the same question 4 weeks ago. You can built this circles with para rules. Find here an example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ocham9iu9igg36/numbering.zip?dl=0

    Kai

    • January 24, 2017 at 4:48 pm #91563
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      It seems he tried the paragraph rules with no success.

      I personally would create a circle text box, make the fill red, and then type in the numbers and make white. And then anchor in place.

      I figure a half hour tops.

  • January 24, 2017 at 5:21 pm #91565
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I love the paragraph rules trick, Kai! Add a white rule below to a colored rule above and you can make an “empty” circle:
    https://creativepro.com/downloads/Numbers_in_Circles.idml
    :-)

  • January 25, 2017 at 12:52 am #91567
    Miguel Lluesma

    Member

    ok, yes with manually adding the circles of course it works, the problem is that this is something I am doing very often and to have an automatic way of doing it is very valuable.
    I tried the paragraph rules and this works however the problem is that I am not able to center the list numbers so they all appear to the left and I have no idea how to make those “numbered list” be centered and in white, how do you do this?

    I hope what I am writing here is clear.

    I managed to do it with combinumbers however this only gives me hard circles instead of full circles.

  • January 25, 2017 at 1:17 am #91568
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    Download my snippet and have a look at the numbering-options.

    Kai

  • January 25, 2017 at 2:12 am #91569
    Miguel Lluesma

    Member

    Hello Kai,
    thanks for your help, I tried the snipet, it looks good, however I have 2 problems and if I can fix it then this would work out.
    The first one is when the text goes over to the next line as a normal paragraph the number of course stays but the blue circle moves down which is not good, how do I keep the blue background with the number?

    The next thing is if I change the color of the numbered list numbers to white then the paragraph text also becomes white, so how would I get the numbers to be white and the paragraph text to be black?

    Again thanks for your help, is appreciated.

  • January 25, 2017 at 2:32 am #91572
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    Use a paragraph rule above instead of a rule below and give the character style a white fill. Find here a new snip:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/x4dtuszqt7mhd9t/numberingWhite.zip?dl=0

    Kai

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