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029 Making professional drop caps

029 Making professional drop caps - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

029 Making professional drop caps

Adding a decorative first or second cap to some of your most important paragraphs in your document adds a bit of class, but you are not limited to just turning on the Drop Cap checkbox or not. There are some finessing and some tricks that you can use to make your work look really special. What I want to do in this video is take you from the very beginning of how to use a drop cap all the way to some more advanced tricks in about five minutes. So let's get started. Here we have a few paragraphs in a story and there are no drop caps at all. So for people who've never used a drop cap, the best way to do this is to click inside the paragraph where you want a drop cap and edit the paragraph style, all right? You could go to the Paragraph Formatting section of the Control panel and add drop cap. This field says how many lines should it drop and this field is how many characters should drop, but it's always bad to do that kind of local formatting, better to just edit the style. So this style…

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