To display this dialog box choose Drop
Caps... from the Format menu.
Position
None: Click this
to remove dropped capital formatting from the paragraph(s) selected in
the Text Editor.
Dropped: Click this
to drop the first character or characters in selected paragraph(s). The
defined number of text lines are indented to provide the required space.
The number of lines also determines the size of the dropped characters.
In Margin: Click
this to drop the first character or characters in selected paragraph(s).
The number of lines determines the size of the dropped characters. All
lines are indented to make room for the dropped capitals.
Options
Characters to drop:
Select the number of characters to drop at the start of each paragraph
selected in the Text Editor.
Lines to drop: Select
the size of the dropped character(s) by defining the number of lines they
should occupy. When Dropped formatting
is selected, the defined number of lines are indented.
Distance from text:
Select the amount of space to be placed between the dropped character(s)
and the text.
