Special character as bullet

[Combs, Richard]

Nina Rogers wrote:
 
> I guess I could create a character style for dingbats and manually type
> the character for the pointing hand ... but then I would need to change
> the font manually (I think) for the rest of the text.
> 
> My question: How do I create a paragraph style that will make the hand
> appear as a bullet, but will allow me to type any additional text in my
> usual font (in this case, Times New Roman)?

There's nothing manual about it, except for setting up the autonumbering as part of defining the paragraph format. 

1) Define a character format that applies the Zapf Dingbats font -- lets call it Dingbats. 
2) With the cursor in a bullet paragraph with the format you want to change, open Paragraph Designer. 
3) On the Numbering tab, in the Autonumber Format box, replace the regular bullet ("\b") with the pointing hand character you want ("\x2b"). 
4) In the Character Format list, select Dingbats. 
4) Select Update All. 

You're done. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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