Lists
You can use a list to:
- Enumerate related items
- Identify steps in a process
- Describe levels of importance
- Create an outline
- …and more!
- Adding a List
- Changing the List Type
- Sublevels
- Continue from Previous
- Keep Lines on Same Page
- Format Next Paragraph
Adding a List
To add a List to your book, select its members and choose the List item from the Text Feature menu.


Changing the List Type
Lists are bulleted by default: each item in the list is automatically preceded by a round bullet (•). Use the lozenge menu to the right of your list if you require a numbered or lettered list instead:
Sublevels
To indent a list item and create a new sublevel, press Tab when your cursor is anywhere within that item. To bring the item back to the previous level, hold down Shift and press Tab.
To change the type of a sublevel, use the lozenge menu that appears to the right of a list item at that level:

✨ This feature was added in Vellum 3.8. Make sure you are up-to-date.
Improperly Indented Sublevels
If a sublevel is over-indented, then its markers will be drawn in red:

In the above example, the sublist of different fairywrens is indented two levels more than its parent, "Fairywrens."
To fix, you could use Shift+Tab to bring all of the fairywrens back one level. However, indenting "Fairywrens" one more level will also work (and is correct in this case):

Continue from Previous
If you’re using one of the ordered list types, you can choose to resume numbering or lettering from the previous list by selecting Continue from Previous:

With that option enabled, numbering will be continuous across multiple lists:

✨ This feature was added in Vellum 3.8. Make sure you are up-to-date.
Keep Lines on Same Page
You can control where page breaks are allowed to occur using the Keep Lines on Same Page menu item, also accessible from the gear menu.

By default Keep Lines on Same Page is off and page breaks are allowed to occur anywhere in the List. When it’s on, if the entire List can’t fit entirely on one page, then it will be moved to the next.
Note: Keep Lines on Same Page is not supported by Kobo or Google Play. Vellum’s Preview will reflect this.
Format Next Paragraph
Usually, the text that follows a List will begin a new paragraph. If it is instead a continuation of the previous one, use the Format Next Paragraph As submenu:
When Continuation of Previous is selected, the text that follows will be set flush left.