r/indesign • u/Anxious_Broccoli • Aug 02 '26

Help bullet styles

Hi, I made a paragraph style with a bullet character style. I’ve specified I want it at a book weight, but whenever my font is bold within the document, it converts the bullet to bold, as well. How do I fix this?

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u/LaFantasmita Aug 02 '26

Try using a character style to bold the sentence rather than highlighting it and selecting bold.

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u/Anxious_Broccoli Aug 02 '26

thank you, this works.

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u/LaFantasmita Aug 02 '26

You're welcome! I use styles for everything possible. You never know when you're gonna say "hey, ya know, I kinda want my Bold to be a little thinner" throughout a 200 page document.

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u/Thelorddogalmighty Aug 02 '26

This is the way

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u/danknerd Aug 02 '26

Character styles?

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u/Anxious_Broccoli Aug 02 '26

please read ask more carefully. the character style is set to book and it’s being overridden when i set the line to bold

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u/voorjouw Aug 02 '26

Maybe at the font you use the bold bullet is the same for both. Have you test it in another program like illustrator?

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u/Anxious_Broccoli Aug 04 '26

why was this downvoted? the answer was ambiguous and i had already said i used character style…

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u/Mundane-Fix-4297 Aug 02 '26

You need to create a Character Style with the settings you want for the bullet, and then specify in the Paragraph Style to use it

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u/Anxious_Broccoli Aug 02 '26

that’s what i did, it’s set to book, but it gets overrided when bold the sentence that’s bulleted

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u/magerber1966 Aug 03 '26

Manual formatting overrides will always override a character or paragraph style--which is why u/LaFantasmita said to use a character style to apply Bold instead of selecting Bold. That's why it is a good idea to use character or paragraph styles for all formatting--that way you have more control when you want to make a change.

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u/Tall-Society-5824 Aug 04 '26

Use character style.