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Creating a style with a large first letter
Does anyone know how to create a new Style in Word that automatically
makes the first character in the paragraph bold and larger than the regular font? I've seen a lot of books do this effect and I'd like to duplicate it. Thanks. |
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The formatting effect is called Drop Cap, and if you select the first letter
in the paragraph and go to Format | Drop Cap, you can replicate it and make adjustments as desired. I'm not sure whether you can get a Style to apply that automatically or not. On 8/2/05 7:51 PM, "Brian Bagnall" wrote: Does anyone know how to create a new Style in Word that automatically makes the first character in the paragraph bold and larger than the regular font? I've seen a lot of books do this effect and I'd like to duplicate it. Thanks. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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No, unfortunately, a drop cap cannot be stored in a style.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . The formatting effect is called Drop Cap, and if you select the first letter in the paragraph and go to Format | Drop Cap, you can replicate it and make adjustments as desired. I'm not sure whether you can get a Style to apply that automatically or not. On 8/2/05 7:51 PM, "Brian Bagnall" wrote: Does anyone know how to create a new Style in Word that automatically makes the first character in the paragraph bold and larger than the regular font? I've seen a lot of books do this effect and I'd like to duplicate it. Thanks. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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But you can record a macro to apply a Style & add a Drop Cap and assign a
keystroke to it or add it as a button on a toolbar. You can also just add the drop cap feature, itself, to a toolbar for convenience. Regards |:) On 8/2/05 10:51 PM, in article , "Brian Bagnall" wrote: Does anyone know how to create a new Style in Word that automatically makes the first character in the paragraph bold and larger than the regular font? I've seen a lot of books do this effect and I'd like to duplicate it. Thanks. |
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Hi Taz
CyberTaz wrote: But you can record a macro to apply a Style & add a Drop Cap and assign a keystroke to it or add it as a button on a toolbar. If we're talking about long and structured documents, I'd rather use VBA to go through the document, search for a given style (or for the first paragraph _after_ a given style), and "dropcap" each occurrence. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Hello Robert-
I'd rather use VBA No doubt a preferred method where there is a significant number of drop caps to be applied. Especially if there are multiple docs involved. I just didn't get the impression that the OP was a VBA coder. Regards |:) |
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I was going to ask if a character style could be a drop cap, but
conducted a test first- Wierd! MS W(ie/o)rd moves the dropped char into a text box (or frame, or whatever). That sure explains why it can't happen in a style. What a grotesque kludge... |
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Hi Jay
jay m wrote: I was going to ask if a character style could be a drop cap, but conducted a test first- Wierd! MS W(ie/o)rd moves the dropped char into a text box (or frame, or whatever). That sure explains why it can't happen in a style. What a grotesque kludge... Well, that's probably the most sensible way Word can handle a character that runs into more than one line of text. But since it actually is a frame, you could assign it to a paragraph style, technically. But it will position the whole paragraph in it, so you'd end up typing the first letter in one paragraph, the rest in another paragraph, and assign the new style to the first letter only. A character style, while beeing feasible on first sight, would not gain you anything: you'd still have to assign it to the first character. The only real practical thing would be if you could make "drop cap" a property of a paragraph style so that the whole text fits into one and not two paragraphs. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Well, some apps can understand that kind of style formatting.
Anyway, as some are known to say- "it is what it is" cheers Jay |
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