Creating a style with a large first letter

I was going to ask if a character style could be a drop cap, but
conducted a test first-
Wierd!
MS W(ie/o)rd moves the dropped char into a text box (or frame, or
whatever).
That sure explains why it can't happen in a style.
What a grotesque kludge...

Hi Jay

jay m wrote:
I was going to ask if a character style could be a drop cap, but
conducted a test first-
Wierd!
MS W(ie/o)rd moves the dropped char into a text box (or frame, or
whatever).
That sure explains why it can't happen in a style.
What a grotesque kludge...

Well, that's probably the most sensible way Word can handle a character
that runs into more than one line of text. But since it actually is a
frame, you could assign it to a paragraph style, technically. But it
will position the whole paragraph in it, so you'd end up typing the
first letter in one paragraph, the rest in another paragraph, and assign
the new style to the first letter only.

A character style, while beeing feasible on first sight, would not gain
you anything: you'd still have to assign it to the first character. The
only real practical thing would be if you could make "drop cap" a
property of a paragraph style so that the whole text fits into one and
not two paragraphs.

2cents
Robert
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Well, some apps can understand that kind of style formatting.
Anyway, as some are known to say-
"it is what it is"

cheers
Jay