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Using drop caps

Using drop caps - InDesign Tutorial

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Using drop caps

- [Man] 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. Now, InDesign let's you easily apply a drop cap to any paragraph. And the most direct path to a drop cap is the control panel. So let's place our cursor inside this first paragraph by double-clicking, then, let's zoom in to 200% by pressing Command or Control + 2. Now, remember, you don't have to select the whole paragraph to apply paragraph formatting. Just having the cursor flashing in there is enough. Next, we want to make sure the control panel is in the paragraph mode. Yep, there it is. And then, let's come over here and change our crop cap field from one to something larger. There's two lines, there's three lines. This other field just below the first lets you control how many characters should drop down.…

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