One of my skills I feel is being able to present technical information to people in a way they can understand, which is one of the reasons I started this blog. I hope to produce more how-tos and tutorials as time goes by.
Here is one of my favourites. I actually didn’t know until recently that you could produce drop caps in Microsoft Word. While looking for ways to do it in Word 2007, I found ways to do it in the other versions as well.
To add a drop cap to a Word 2003 document:
- Select the first letter of the sentence that you want to convert to a drop cap .
- Choose Format -> Drop Cap.
- A “Drop Cap” dialog box should appear. Select whether you would like a Dropped or In margin drop cap, or you can remove a previously existent cap. In the example above I have used a Dropped cap.
- Select the font you wish to use.
- If desired, select a different Distance From Text to make the Drop Cap letter more or less removed from the paragraph.
- Increase or decrease the Lines to Drop to increase or decrease the size of the Drop Cap letter.
- Press OK to apply your desired changes.
Details for Word 2007 can be found at this blog article at How-To Geek Blogs, but I may put my own up here eventually. Its really easy.
By the way, the font I used in the above example is Old English and should be available on most computers. Its definitely one of my favourites.
Other links:
- A lesson from Microsoft
- Drop caps in CSS by Mandarin Designs
- Another, more spiffy lesson from M$oft
- Drop Cap in Word 2007, from … uh… Microsoft…
I was actually trying to find one of the video lessons from Redmond but its seems to be hiding. Hmm, I wonder what happens to Google Adsense and my blog search links when I use the word “Microsoft” too often.
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