Re: Why no drop caps in text box? Is there an "easy" work around?

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From: Stefan Blom (no.spam_at_please.xyz)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:44:43 +0100

I believe the closest you can get to a drop cap in a text box is to
format the initial character to be bigger than the rest of the text in
the text box... To make it look slightly better, you may want to
specify fixed line spacing for the paragraph (otherwise, line height
will increase for the line containing the larger character). Do the
following to specify a fixed value for line spacing: On the Format
menu, click Paragraph. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the Indents
and Spacing tab. Under "Line Spacing", choose "Exactly", and then type
the desired amount (in points). 

-- 
Stefan Blom
"TSeroogy" <TSeroogy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AF7F051D-C6E3-41FE-8E71-4D4D8ADF64E4@microsoft.com...
> I have placed a couple of text boxes in a newsletter. I want to use
the Drop
> Cap feature for the first paragraph. This is not available in text
boxes or
> tables.
>
> Is there an easy workaround?
>
> TSeroogy

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