If you look at the opening paragraph of each chapter of this book, you'll notice that the typeface for the drop cap is not the same as the rest of the text in the paragraph. In early editions of this book, I had to manually drag across every single drop cap character and change it to a character style. These days InDesign has a feature that makes it possible to automatically style the drop cap character. Tip Use this technique if you want to apply an automatic drop cap without defining a paragraph style. Use the exercise on the next page if you want to apply the automatic drop cap as part of a paragraph style. To apply automatic drop cap character styling:
The previous exercise works great if you have only one drop cap paragraph you need to style. But if you're working with many paragraphs that need to be formatted, you're much better off making the automatic drop cap part of a paragraph style sheet. That way you can style all the text with a single, magical click. To apply automatic drop cap in a paragraph style:
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