I’m sure someone will come along with a much more clever response than mine.

However, you could always set it with normal bullets and do a find/replace when you are finished.

I would suggest using an embedded character style for the first character so you can assign a baseline shift also. This assumes you are using InDesign CS2.

Why not use a font that has circles?
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/ff-dingbats/

wow thanks for the responses I didnt expect them to come so fast, unfortunately Miss Tiffany im using Indesign 2 and i dont see an option to do that, though im sure there is one im just too ignorant to the programme. Nick thanks for the suggestion to use a different font, right now im using 36pt size full stops from Helvetica rounded, i still have to place the circles on a horizontal axis because i dont know how to use negative tracking (putting the circles to the left of the text frame, so they appear to be out of fram) but the pre set leading helps a lot thanks.

Not sure what you mean by “on a horizontal axis” but to ‘outdent’ anything simply indent everything except your bulleted copy and, shazam, your bullets are hanging outside the margin.

(You may need to adjust the placement/width of your text frames to compensate for the global indent.)

It’s strange that neither Zapf Dingbats nor Webdings has a plain open bullet.
However, you could perhaps use the Webdings bullet (Webdings is a Mac OS font), outlined.
It comes in two sizes.

If you simply want — or can use — and outlined bullet, this is a perfect opportunity for nested styles. You could create a “character style” of the black outline and “nest” it in your “paragraph style” which assigns proper indentations.

A few useful links on creating nested styles.

Although nested styles would work, InDesign’s built in bullets/numbering feature would also do the trick.

However, neither of these features exist way back in InDesign 2, which is what Pank is using. Sorry!

T