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Automating chapter title formatting

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Automating chapter title formatting

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- [Instructor] We're now ready to create and apply our chapter title style and our first paragraph style, which includes a drop cap and is made of a nested style. So this is what they look like in the finished version. Coming to our work in progress, I'm going to select the first instance of what will become the chapter title. Starting with my character formats, I will come over to my OpenType options and make this All Small Caps. In addition, I want to increase the tracking to 50. I'll come to my paragraph formats, remove the first line indent, set the alignment to center, and then come to my space before and make that 15 points. Then come to my Paragraph Styles panel, New Paragraph Style. I will call this Chapter Title. Now select the next paragraph. Let's remove the first line indent. Let's add 15 points of space before and then come to our drop cap settings, where we want a three line drop cap. I have the whole paragraph selected here, but, actually, that's not even necessary…

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