And if I have two columns of text then Todd's suggestion does not work and it is not matter of people not knowing how to use indents and stuff properly.

This topic could be merged with 35869567-allow-negative-indentation as it's essentially the same thing.

this should be totally an option, because dismissing all the comments about what is a "correct" way to put bullets - hey, at least some of us are designers (who would know with a program called InDESIGN), and often it looks better to have them out of the grid. there's also a usability aspect - it's often more intuitive and easy to read and navigate. I don't see how expanding the text box to the edge of the document is the correct way to work, maybe in Word it is bro, but this program is made for visually designing text, yes it's handy to use numbers and styles to make it all more efficient but there's no reason not to have these kind of options. that is why illustrator sucks for working with text (for some reason) on one hand but is the default choice for designing small one page documents because then you just do it all manually. But it should't be like that neither in Illustrator nor in InDesign.

@Todd – bingo! That's an approach that works!!

I cannot believe Adobe hasn't implemented this in over 20 years of having this app. I cannot believe a design company doesn't not understand the typographically proper way to do bullets. Mind-blowing. I signed up only to upvote this.

@Jack - Yes, thanks, I am aware of that. I do it all the time, but it's not a style. It's a work-around. If I want to promote a run-in workaround to a real heading, I have to edit it out of the paragraph, create a new style, and paste the text into a new paragraph with that style. If I want to demote a real heading to a run-in heading, I have to go through a similar, but even less convenient, rigamarole.

The whole point of style sheets is to avoid that kind of repetitive manual busywork. I appreciate your suggestion, but it doesn't really fulfill the need for REAL run-in heading styles!

Allen, you can create run-in heads with nested or GREP styles!

This is an obviously useful improvement. The notion that hanging bullets is "incorrect formatting" is unrealistic, since designers are expected to design with much greater freedom than that.

One of the tremendous advantages of semi-automatic format management like InDesign provides is that projects can be changed without requiring hours of manual rework and adjustment. Hanging indents should be easier, and hanging bullets is a comparable design strategy.

Support for run-in heads would also be tremendously valuable, since there is no way to create them other than by embedding them into the paragraph -- which means they aren't stylesheet headings, and have to be deleted and recreated as separate paragraphs if the design changes.

I used to think this was needed, too, until I learned that I was not laying out text frames correctly. Simply expand the width of the text box to the document edges, and set your left & right indents accordingly to accommodate the bullets correctly hanging outside of the paragraph text. This is the proper way to handle bullets and all text, for that matter.

Also, start using Baseline Grids, and you will take your layouts to the next level!

Here is a better way, although not ideal. Space, bullet character, space, text. Then place cursor before the bullet and negative track until the text aligns with the frame. The good news is this combination before the text can be cut and pasted for every bullet. The bad news is it is not able to be a style sheet. Agree, negative indent would be best, then hanging bullets could be included as a style sheet.

Referring specifically to your hanging-bullets.png - Technically , bullets are sub topics from the main paragraph and therefore really should be inset. I accept that as a matter of style if you choose to have them hanging outside your paragraph, but technically this is incorrect formatting. :)

I always manually set the indentation for the rest of my paragraph styles to match the text position on my bullet points. This is an awful workaround, so i definitely vote for this feature!

I voted for this feature request but would be better as a part of another request: 'Allow negative indentation!'