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Indenting Bulleted Lists in Lucid

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March 14, 2017
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Is there a way to control the size of the tab for bulleted / numbered lists? The current tab space is much too big for my needs and is wasting space on my diagram. Please and thank you!

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Best answer by Karsten B

Rich

Thanks for reaching out! You can change the indent on bulleted/numbered lists. It is accessed from the Text formatting option at the top of the editor.

Hopefully this helps!

Karsten BAnswer

Lucid support team

Rich

Thanks for reaching out! You can change the indent on bulleted/numbered lists. It is accessed from the Text formatting option at the top of the editor.

Hopefully this helps!

Prasanna A

How do I add multiple Bullets. It is not allowing me to press the enter. If I press it is just wiping the line ?

Eric R

Lucid support team

Thanks for commenting! You can add multiple bullets by pressing CMD + enter if you are on Mac or Ctrl + enter if you are using Windows.

Network A

@eric r How can I add an indented bullet to a bullet list? I'd like to control a bullet list similar to other outline tools.

I realize I could switch to PowerPoint but would like to stay in LucidChart these few slides. I pasted this bullet list but see no way to adjust the tab indent.

Eric R

Lucid support team

You can style your bullet list with the following commands:

Add a new bullet: Press CMD/Ctrl + Enter to add a new bulleted line.
Indent a bullet: Press Tab while on the line you wish to indent.
End a bulleted list: Press Shift + Enter to start a new line of text without a bullet.

Hope this helps!

Linda S

One thing that's missing in the instructions above is how to 'outdent' the list. In case anyone needs this I played around with it and if you CMD + ENTER to make a new sub-bullet and then SHIFT+TAB it will "outdent" (ie: move back one level) so you can have a numbered list with sub-values under each number.

Micah

Lucid community team

Linda thanks so much for sharing your tip with us - super helpful addition to Eric's instructions!

mary m

none of the tricks CTRL SHIFT TAB etc. etc. Do NOT work to create a bulleted list. Please advise.

Phillip W

Lucid support team

Hey Mary

Thanks for posting in the Lucid Community and keeping this conversation going! I think I may have answered your question in a different post but I wanted to go ahead and post it here as well just in case.

A couple of common tips that I frequently use when creating a bulleted list within Lucidchart are:

Using Cmd (or Ctrl) + Enter to keep the list going. This can be used multiple times in a row to create a series of bullets.
Tab to create a sub bullet in a new line.
Shift + Tab to revert back to a main bullet.
You can pin the text options menu by clicking the pin in the top right corner of the box.

Hope this helps! I have included the screenshot from the previous post here as well as it may help out. Please feel free to post another comment with additional questions--Cheers!

Mariajose V

Hi there. None of the tips mentioned above works when I try to create more than one bullet. The bullets work for the first item bulleted but then "Ctrl+Enter" just slightly indents the next line but doesn't create a new bullet

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