1 00:00:06,620 --> 00:00:10,950 Hi there. In this video we're going to look at what a drop cap is. 2 00:00:10,950 --> 00:00:14,550 It's the name for the giant first letter in a paragraph used for storybooks 3 00:00:14,550 --> 00:00:18,870 and in our case this like little factoid pull quote thing. 4 00:00:18,870 --> 00:00:20,610 Let's go and do that now. 5 00:00:20,610 --> 00:00:22,580 First up, let's bring in our text. 6 00:00:22,575 --> 00:00:23,855 I have nothing selected, 7 00:00:23,850 --> 00:00:26,100 go to File, got to Place. 8 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:30,900 In our O4 Long Document there's one in there called Factoid 1, 9 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:33,900 click, hold and drag out, we've got our text. 10 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:35,600 Now I'm going to select all this text. 11 00:00:35,595 --> 00:00:40,605 I'm going to make it Roboto Slab Light. 12 00:00:40,605 --> 00:00:42,685 I'm going to make the font size 20, 13 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,060 and I'm going to make the font color paper in our case white. 14 00:00:47,055 --> 00:00:51,305 Drag it across using my black arrow and just get it to roughly fit, 15 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:53,130 we can fix this up afterwards. 16 00:00:53,130 --> 00:00:54,350 Now to do the drop cap, 17 00:00:54,350 --> 00:00:56,370 grab your type tool, select the text, 18 00:00:56,370 --> 00:00:58,430 actually you can have your cursor flashing anywhere 19 00:00:58,430 --> 00:01:01,540 in the paragraph you want to work with, it doesn't really matter. 20 00:01:01,535 --> 00:01:04,975 What you can do is switch it from character to paragraph 21 00:01:04,970 --> 00:01:08,890 formatting options and the drop cap is this one here. 22 00:01:08,885 --> 00:01:12,285 If you hover above it it's like you can see the little A there. 23 00:01:12,285 --> 00:01:16,595 If you click it once, nothing happens. It's a bit disappointing. 24 00:01:16,595 --> 00:01:19,505 Two though, you can start to see what happened down the bottom. 25 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:23,060 Three, because you can see where it's crossing over one line, 26 00:01:23,060 --> 00:01:24,860 it's already crossing one line. 27 00:01:24,860 --> 00:01:26,030 I'm not sure why it jumps to one, 28 00:01:26,030 --> 00:01:27,650 but you can cross it across two, 29 00:01:27,650 --> 00:01:32,630 or three and you probably not in this instance but you can see the one next to it. 30 00:01:32,630 --> 00:01:34,750 This is how many across that drop cap goes. 31 00:01:34,745 --> 00:01:36,745 This can be really handy if you've got, 32 00:01:36,740 --> 00:01:39,880 say you want to do a drop cap and it's like this one, 33 00:01:39,875 --> 00:01:44,015 maybe you've got like a numbering system and you want to go across because you want that, 34 00:01:44,015 --> 00:01:48,555 or that, or they all look pretty horrible. 35 00:01:48,555 --> 00:01:51,465 But if you've got more than one you need, 36 00:01:51,460 --> 00:01:53,120 I'm going to get rid of all that. 37 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,010 The other thing you can do is, 38 00:01:55,010 --> 00:01:56,620 I'm going to put mine back to the I, 39 00:01:56,615 --> 00:02:01,175 is I can select it and you don't have to but in my case it's on light. 40 00:02:01,175 --> 00:02:05,745 I'm going to move it to bold just to make it look a little nicerish. 41 00:02:05,740 --> 00:02:07,110 That's it for drop caps. 42 00:02:07,110 --> 00:02:10,640 I'm just going to line mine up a little nicer within this box. 43 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:14,250 How's it looking? I'm okay with that. 44 00:02:14,245 --> 00:02:17,155 All right, let's get on to the next video.