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Using drop caps

Using drop caps - InDesign Tutorial

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Using drop caps

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- [Instructor] Much of the art of design revolves around drawing your reader's eye to where you want them to look. 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. Let's place our cursor inside this first paragraph of this story. I just double clicked on that. Then, we'll zoom into 200% by pressing Cmd or Ctrl + 2. 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 our Control panel is in paragraph mode. Yep, there it is. Then, let's come over here to these features in the middle and change the drop cap value from 1 to, say, 3. You can type a number or just click the little up and down arrows next to the field. You can see that the drop cap was added, and now, it's three lines high. This other field…

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