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The fastest way to combine a paragraph with side numbering

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Sep 15, 2018 Sep 15, 2018

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Hey everyone!

Searching for your good advice!

I have a text that goes something like this:

text 88

some text poem     very beautiful written

just filling the lines    for your understanding

so, now I need to turn it to this:

text 88          some text poem     very beautiful written

                     just filling the lines    for your understanding

My idea was to create a text frame with the text number and anchor it to the text.

Is there a faster way to do that???

The rest of the text is in one column.

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Community Expert , Sep 15, 2018 Sep 15, 2018

if you mean a side numbering with the word (text) before numbering, from paragraph panel menu> Bullets and Numbering

add the word text before the number under numbering style.

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You can use tabs,

you have used spaces, from type> show hidden characters to see how its done, the first is what you did, the second with tabs

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The thing is I have 700 verses like that to change

I have 18 chapters each in a separate file. In total it's 700 verses but in different chapters, each different number of verses.

the text number is in Paragraph style and the text itself also in a different paragraph style.

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Also you can do it as table with hidden frames like below, so you can center the text within the cell.

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if you mean a side numbering with the word (text) before numbering, from paragraph panel menu> Bullets and Numbering

add the word text before the number under numbering style.

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Thanks, I'll see if that works, the thing is that I forgot to write is that I have 700 instances like that in the book I'm working on!!!

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You're better off with an anchored object. Very easy to apply with object styles.

https://indesignsecrets.com/inquestion-making-sideheads.php

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The problem with this solution is that sometimes I have verses that are together, for example:

text 1-3

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