Styles - Creating opening paragraph with dropcap

[Brian Bagnall]

Hi,

I want to create a style called "First Paragraph" that makes the very first
character enlarged (3x font size) and drop cap. How can I do that?

Thanks,

Brian

 

[Lynn]

You can create a character style in Word 2000 upwards. Create a new
style called FirstChar and set the Style Type to Character. Click on
Format, Font, set the font size and then choose the Character Spacing
tab, choose the Position drop down and choose Lowered and then set the
points you want it lowered by (72pts = 1 inch). When you want to use
it, you could type your paragraph as normal then select the first
character and apply the new character style you created.

By the way, I am using Word 2003 and cannot remember if this will work
in lower versions. if not let me know - thanks
Lynn

 

[Brian Bagnall]

Thanks for the advice, Lynn. It worked well but the text in the rest of the
paragraph leaves a big space. Any way to make the text wrap around the big
character more naturally?

- Brian

 

[Lynn]

You can use wordart to create the first letter and format it to
"through". Thats the only other way I know of doing this where the
rest of the paragraph wraps around and underneath it nicely.