How to easily create a nested list when in a list

Question

My company recently switched to confluence online instead of on their servers and I have some difficulties to find back this feature. When doing a list, how to easily do a nested list ?

Let's say I have a bullet list, like this one

* Item 1
* Item 2

How do I insert a nested list under, let's say, Item 1 ? Before there were 2 buttons, "Left indent" to diminish the level of a list and "Right indent" to increase it. I do not find these buttons anymore.

The workaround I found is to manually insert a list when under a list, but it does seem to me a lot of clicks for a relatively simple and common operation, and I still need to do some copy/paste when writing items and wanting to change their indentation level on the fly.

Surely there must be a shortcut or some buttons I don't see. What are they ?

Thank you.

Matt Reiner _K15t_ · Answer

This is amazing! How did I never try this?! Thank you @Kianna

Kianna_c7auae · Answer

Hey @Matt Reiner _K15t_ !

I'm not sure if point 4 from my answer above will also answer your question from the linked thread

Kianna_c7auae · Answer

Hi!

Is this what you're after?

If so, you can achieve this by doing the following (note that I'm on macOS):

* In the description/text box create the first line of your list (select which type of list you would like to use from the menu at the top of the box).
* Next, press the 'Enter' key.* This will give you a line which looks like this:

* Without typing anything, press the 'Tab' key.* This will give you an indented bullet point:

* You can change the nested bullet point types using the menu at the top of the description/text box while the line (see image above) is still selected, either before or after you've finished typing.
For example, say you wanted a numbered list with nested bullet points instead:

* To escape the indented list, use 'Shift' + 'Tab'; this will take you to the top level of bullet points.
* You can repeat step 3 to create as many levels of nested bullet points as you wish:

I hope this helps!