Well, these work like regular styles in Pages. Once you get something you like you can save it. Let's go and choose this one right here and then I get a nice fancy letter there. So here I'm going to go and choose a different font. So here you just change the font of that letter just like you would any other piece of text. Typically when you do a Drop Cap you're going to want to have a special font. Maybe a thicker border there and maybe having the color of the border match the color of the letter. I like the idea of making it something circular. So I can make it say a light gray and then I could go here to the Drop Cap Options and make the background black and have it kind of be an inverse letter there. So I could select that letter there and I could change it. Now to change the color of the character itself you don't do that in here. So the character scale and the corner radius are related. When you do that notice the size of the letter changes. The Corner Radius I can go all the way to the left there to make it a square or I can go all the way to the right to make it a circle. I can go to 100% of the size of the background or down to something very small. So here it's 80% of the size of the background. Set the size of the border and the color of the border. So I can do a line border to go around it. Even set it to semi-transparent or completely transparent. So now I can set a color for a background shape. In addition I can check a Background Shape and I have a whole bunch of extra controls. Zero puts the left side of the letter flush with the left margin. If I go far over, say I go 200% here, 100% will actually put it kind of with the right side of the letter flush with the left margin. Now the Outdent is how far to the left the letter is moved over. I have Extra Spacing so I could add a little extra spacing here to the right side if I think I need it.Īlso the Outdent. So I can have it wrap closer to the letter like that or have it in a straight line. It can do that to one less than the number of lines high that the Drop Cap is. If I increase that to one you could see it raises the drop cap one line above the text. First the number of Raised Lines which is zero. Under Options you have a lot more.Ĭlick that and you have this separate menu here with all sorts of controls. But I can increase that to include the second letter or maybe the first five letters. So I could reduce that to say only two lines or I can increase it to four lines or however many I want. Then instead we're going to scroll down and we can now see that the checkbox is checked. So let's go back to the first default one. You don't have to use any one of the these. Here's one where the letter is actually white with a black background with little curved corners. The letter if right in the middle of the left margin. Here we have one that goes out to the left and the rest of the text if flush with the left margin. In this one we get a letter that covers four lines and the lines mold to the shape of the letter. So here is the capital letter sticking out above the first line. Now I can switch to one of these other styles by clicking here and choosing one of these. So you can see here I have a large first letter that goes through three lines and pushes all three lines over to the right. I'll check it and it will choose the default Drop Cap. You can turn the Drop Cap on by simply checking the box or choosing a style. There's a checkbox and also a little menu where you can choose some styles. Go all the way to the bottom and you'll see Drop Cap as the very last thing. Now that you've got that you want to go to Format in the sidebar and then Style. You could select it and it doesn't really matter as long as the cursor is in the paragraph because it's something that affects the entire paragraph although it's only the first letter that's going to change. So it could be blinking at the beginning or be at the end. To create a Drop Cap in a paragraph you need to put your cursor in the paragraph. So this is a new feature in Pages version 10.0 so make sure you've updated your version of Pages. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 600 supporters. Today let me show you how to use the new Drop Caps feature in Pages. Check out Using the New Drop Caps Feature Of Mac Pages at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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