Friday, October 21, 2011

Drop Cap...A decorative touch to a page...

In an effort to postpone talking about anchors (ugh!), I'm breaking my promise and posting about something light and easy. In the last post I talked about using clip art to dress up a page. Another item you can use to dress up a page is a drop capital letter. Here's an example:


You frequently see this type of embellishment at the beginning of a chapter.

Drop Cap 2007 or 2010
  1. Type the text where you want to add the drop cap.
  2. Highlight the letter you want to have dropped.
  3. On the Insert menu, locate the Text group, and select the drop-down arrow at Drop Cap: Dropped or In margin.
  4. Select a drop cap option, and then click OK

Drop Cap 2003
  1. Type the text where you want to add the drop cap. 
  2. Highlight the letter you want to have dropped.
  3. On the Format menu, select Drop Cap. The Drop Cap dialog appears.
  4. Select a drop option: Dropped or In margin.
  5. Click OK


So is this bit of knowledge earth shattering? Absolutely not. But for a Friday night, it's a lot more fun than anchors. I'll work on anchors this weekend...see if I can make it easy.



2 comments:

  1. So easy and it packs a big punch. Thanks!

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  2. I'm glad you're having fun with drop-caps. If you change the font and then do the drop-cap, you can get really fancy. Word is actually inserting a graphic and you can find some really ornate letters online. Every time I see one of the really beautiful ones, I think about all those poor monks laboring over illuminated manuscripts. We can get nearly the same effect with a few clicks of buttons. We live in a wondrous time.

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