WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.620 --> 00:00:10.950 Hi there. In this video we're going to look at what a drop cap is. 00:00:10.950 --> 00:00:14.550 It's the name for the giant first letter in a paragraph used for storybooks 00:00:14.550 --> 00:00:18.870 and in our case this like little factoid pull quote thing. 00:00:18.870 --> 00:00:20.610 Let's go and do that now. 00:00:20.610 --> 00:00:22.575 First up, let's bring in our text. 00:00:22.575 --> 00:00:23.850 I have nothing selected, 00:00:23.850 --> 00:00:26.100 go to File, got to Place. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.900 In our O4 Long Document there's one in there called Factoid 1, 00:00:30.900 --> 00:00:33.900 click, hold and drag out, we've got our text. 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:35.595 Now I'm going to select all this text. 00:00:35.595 --> 00:00:40.605 I'm going to make it Roboto Slab Light. 00:00:40.605 --> 00:00:42.680 I'm going to make the font size 20, 00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:47.055 and I'm going to make the font color paper in our case white. 00:00:47.055 --> 00:00:51.300 Drag it across using my black arrow and just get it to roughly fit, 00:00:51.300 --> 00:00:53.130 we can fix this up afterwards. 00:00:53.130 --> 00:00:54.350 Now to do the drop cap, 00:00:54.350 --> 00:00:56.370 grab your type tool, select the text, 00:00:56.370 --> 00:00:58.430 actually you can have your cursor flashing anywhere 00:00:58.430 --> 00:01:01.535 in the paragraph you want to work with, it doesn't really matter. 00:01:01.535 --> 00:01:04.970 What you can do is switch it from character to paragraph 00:01:04.970 --> 00:01:08.885 formatting options and the drop cap is this one here. 00:01:08.885 --> 00:01:12.285 If you hover above it it's like you can see the little A there. 00:01:12.285 --> 00:01:16.595 If you click it once, nothing happens. It's a bit disappointing. 00:01:16.595 --> 00:01:19.500 Two though, you can start to see what happened down the bottom. 00:01:19.500 --> 00:01:23.060 Three, because you can see where it's crossing over one line, 00:01:23.060 --> 00:01:24.860 it's already crossing one line. 00:01:24.860 --> 00:01:26.030 I'm not sure why it jumps to one, 00:01:26.030 --> 00:01:27.650 but you can cross it across two, 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. 00:01:32.630 --> 00:01:34.745 This is how many across that drop cap goes. 00:01:34.745 --> 00:01:36.740 This can be really handy if you've got, 00:01:36.740 --> 00:01:39.875 say you want to do a drop cap and it's like this one, 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, 00:01:44.015 --> 00:01:48.555 or that, or they all look pretty horrible. 00:01:48.555 --> 00:01:51.460 But if you've got more than one you need, 00:01:51.460 --> 00:01:53.120 I'm going to get rid of all that. 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.010 The other thing you can do is, 00:01:55.010 --> 00:01:56.615 I'm going to put mine back to the I, 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. 00:02:01.175 --> 00:02:05.740 I'm going to move it to bold just to make it look a little nicerish. 00:02:05.740 --> 00:02:07.110 That's it for drop caps. 00:02:07.110 --> 00:02:10.640 I'm just going to line mine up a little nicer within this box. 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:14.245 How's it looking? I'm okay with that. 00:02:14.245 --> 00:02:17.150 All right, let's get on to the next video.