I'm going to turn on the Apply Style to Selection checkbox. I'll just call it numbered list, but of course you can call it anything you want.
That forces InDesign to open the New Paragraph Style dialog box, and it sucks all of that formatting, like the numbered list, into this dialog box. So while that text is still selected, I'm going to come over here to the Paragraph Styles panel, and I'm going to hold down the Option key or the Alt key on Windows and click on the New Paragraph Style button.
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I cover how to make automatic numbered lists like this in my title, InDesign Essential Training here in the online training library. That's the one in the middle of the control panel when the control panel is set to Paragraph formatting. You can do that by double-clicking to switch to the Type tool, and then select all of that text, come up here to the control panel, and click on the Numbered List button. I'm going to scroll over here to the left side of my page, and you can see I have the same list, but without all that formatting. So this person wanted to setup the paragraph styles automatically, and I just couldn't think of how to do it, but then Kelly Vaughn, who runs the site Document Geek, came up with a solution, and it is so clever, it's so out of the box that I just had to share it with you.
That's fine, but if you had to do dozens or hundreds of these, and if you still needed that text to be editable, like if you had to add or remove items from the list, this would be a nightmare. I just typed a character from a font that looks like a checkbox, and then a Tab, and then the number, and so on. Somebody was asking how to make a list, a series of paragraphs, that are both numbered and have bullets that look like checkboxes, like this one here. We had a question show up in the InDesign Secrets forums recently that really stumped me.