This video demonstrates how to create a drop cap and format it with paragraph and character styles.
What is a drop cap?
Also known as an Initial Cap, they typically involve a stylization and enlargement of the first letter of the first word in a paragraph and extends into at least one or more lines of text below. They are often very decorative and were first seen in biblical texts.
Here is a full list of helpful keyboard shortcuts from Adobe to help speed up your editing process.
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Learn how to package your InDesign document to share with others.
Learn how to access unique typographic details such as ligatures, small caps, calligraphic swashes, fractions, and Oldstyle numerals. Note that not all typefaces come with these features.
This video goes over how to use master pages in InDesign and creating automatic page numbers for perfect consistency. Great video for working on large book or magazine designs.
See the video below showing how the docking and moving around of windows & panels works in InDesign.
In this video, you will learn how to use paragraph styles to generate a Table of Contents that can also auto-update as you create more pages. Paragraph and character styles are a helpful way to stylize many textboxes all at once.
This is a super helpful guide to book publishing and is a more efficient method to manually creating a large TOC by yourself.
How to set up bleeds properly in InDesign with an explanation of their importance and practicality.
This video goes over the imposition process and how to set up a booklet layout in InDesign.
How to set type in Indesign through tracking, kerning, leading, and more.
