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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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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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