Use drop caps

- [Narrator] Much of the art of design…revolves around drawing the eye…to where you want the reader to go.…And one of the best ways to draw the eye…to the beginning of a story or a section…is with a drop cap.…InDesign lets you easily apply a drop cap…to any paragraph.…And the most direct path to a drop cap…is the Control Panel.…I have my magazine document open…from the exercise files folder,…and I'm going to jump to the previous spread…by pressing Option or Alt + PgUp.…Now, let's go ahead and zoom in down here…to the bottom of my page.…

I'll double-click with the selection tool…to place my cursor inside that paragraph.…And remember, just having the cursor…flashing in there is enough.…Next, I'm going to make sure my Control Panel…is in paragraph mode.…I'll come up here and click the paragraph symbol.…There we go.…And now, I'm going to come over here…and set the drop cap value from zero to, say, three.…I just typed the number three inside that field,…but I could have clicked the little arrow keys…to the left of the field.…