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Creating a listicle with auto-numbered drop caps
From the course: Type Tips
Creating a listicle with auto-numbered drop caps
- [Instructor] This movie is about how to combine InDesign's autonumbering with drop caps. So I want to create a listicle like I have on the left-hand page, and to do that I'd like to use autonumbering and then make those numbers into drop caps. The problem is that autonumbering and drop caps do not play nicely together. So first of all, I am going to just come to my type and set up my formats using a standard drop cap. So I'll come to my paragraph formatting controls and I want my drop cap to sink three lines, and I also want the number to be very condensed. So I'm going to select this and then come and choose Acumin Pro ExtraCondensed, semibold. And let's make it a color as well. And now I'm gonna save that as a character style. I'll call that number drop cap. So now with this paragraph style, I have this paragraph style called list, applied to all of these paragraphs, I'm going to edit that paragraph style and say drop caps and nested styles, let's sink three lines and we'll use…
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