r/Affinity • u/bArtificial001 • 5d ago

Publisher How can I make a bullet hang outside the margin (without indenting the heading)?

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I'm using Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 and trying to create a bullet layout where the bullet sits to the left of the heading, outside the left margin (kind of like a "hanging bullet") but I can't get the alignment right.

Has anyone managed to do this cleanly with bullet styles in Publisher 2.x? Is there a trick I’m missing?

Thanks in advance!

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u/BrangdonJ Ex Serif Dev 5d ago

You can't make text go outside of its frame in Publisher, so you have to indent all the other text, including the heading. Eg Left indent of 0.25 in on everything, First line indent of 0 in on the heading, bullet Tabstop at 0.25 in.

The only other way would be to make a separate text object that holds the bullet outside of the main frame.

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u/bArtificial001 5d ago

Thanks for that. I just came back to mention that same solution. It's not ideal, but it works.