Hi there. In this video we're going to look at what a drop cap is.
It's the name for the giant first letter in a paragraph used for storybooks
and in our case this like little factoid pull quote thing.
Let's go and do that now.
First up, let's bring in our text.
I have nothing selected,
go to File, got to Place.
In our O4 Long Document there's one in there called Factoid 1,
click, hold and drag out, we've got our text.
Now I'm going to select all this text.
I'm going to make it Roboto Slab Light.
I'm going to make the font size 20,
and I'm going to make the font color paper in our case white.
Drag it across using my black arrow and just get it to roughly fit,
we can fix this up afterwards.
Now to do the drop cap,
grab your type tool, select the text,
actually you can have your cursor flashing anywhere
in the paragraph you want to work with, it doesn't really matter.
What you can do is switch it from character to paragraph
formatting options and the drop cap is this one here.
If you hover above it it's like you can see the little A there.
If you click it once, nothing happens. It's a bit disappointing.
Two though, you can start to see what happened down the bottom.
Three, because you can see where it's crossing over one line,
it's already crossing one line.
I'm not sure why it jumps to one,
but you can cross it across two,
or three and you probably not in this instance but you can see the one next to it.
This is how many across that drop cap goes.
This can be really handy if you've got,
say you want to do a drop cap and it's like this one,
maybe you've got like a numbering system and you want to go across because you want that,
or that, or they all look pretty horrible.
But if you've got more than one you need,
I'm going to get rid of all that.
The other thing you can do is,
I'm going to put mine back to the I,
is I can select it and you don't have to but in my case it's on light.
I'm going to move it to bold just to make it look a little nicerish.
That's it for drop caps.
I'm just going to line mine up a little nicer within this box.
How's it looking? I'm okay with that.
All right, let's get on to the next video.