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Add Emphasis to Paragraphs with Drop Caps in Word 2007

You can add emphasis to your Word 2007 documents by using Drop Caps… you know, those big letters at the beginning of a document or paragraph that make your document look really professional.

Click the beginning of the paragraph you want to emphasize. Then click the Insert tab on the Ribbon and choose Drop Cap. You can scroll to any of the three preset Drop Caps and the document will change with your choice.  By default it will drop by three lines. 

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However, us geeks are never satisfied with default settings.  You will notice in the screen above there is a choice for Drop Cap Options.  In the options screen you can change the font, the number of lines to drop, and position.

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Here is the result after choosing the stylish Old English font. (You might want to change the regular font to match)

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This is a nice tip for adding 37 pieces of flair to your TPS reports, although using Drop Caps for every paragraph is probably overkill. Used sparingly however, I think it's a nice creative touch!

Mysticgeek is the resident IT expert at How-To Geek and a huge rock music fan. When he's not writing about Microsoft Office, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 06/23/07 and tagged with: Microsoft Office

Comments (1)

  1. Rick Henderson

    Great tip. I'm going to link to it for a university course I teach the labs for on intro computers. The page will be internal to our learning management system so I can't send you the link for it.. oh what the heck I can post it to my blog!

    Your site is quite interesting and I might check it out more (I've lately chronicled some of my own problems with Vista) and I'm beginning to really like the WordPress way of things… I'm looking for a new blog platform.

    -Rick


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