Wednesday, February 27, 2008

How do I get a large letter at the start of a paragraph in Word?


This is known as a drop cap. You have probably seen drop caps in books and magazines before. Drop caps can be an attractive decorative addition to your page and help to break up the text.

To use drop cap in Word 2007, select the Insert tab on the Word ribbon. Glance across the ribbon until you come to the Text menu options and locate Drop Cap (see image below).


Click the little down arrow in order to bring up the Drop Cap options. You can insert your drop cap dropped into your text (as seen at the top of this post) or place it into the margin area.

You will also notice that you can select Drop Cap Options. This allows you to select the font of your letter, choose how many lines to drop it and how far spaced from the other text you want your drop cap to be.

Have fun playing with the different fonts styles to create very different looks and feels to your documents.

3 Comments:

Anonymous said...

This is no help at all. My computer says nothing about a drop cap. Maybe it is because I have an updated computer. Do you know what to do for a mac book air???

Bill said...

I guess he was explain how to on windows lol not mac

Anonymous said...

the programs should be the same, you might just have an updated version of Microsoft office. try using the help menu that appears on the bar on the top of your computer to the left