How to make an initial letter in Word: step-by-step instructions

While working with text in the Word editor, you may need to decorate it somehow, for example, add an initial letter. Fortunately, a huge assortment of program tools allows you to do this. This article will tell you how to make an initial letter in Word 10 year of release, however, all actions will be common for other versions of the program.

Definition

And we will begin directly with the definition of what the initial letter is, but we will fully describe the initial letter in the program. As many people know from Russian language lessons, the initial letter is the capital letter at the beginning of the chapter. Usually it has a size many times larger than the rest of the font in the text.

In the program, the letter has the same characteristics, but its insertion may differ in location. For example, you can insert it into the text itself. In this case, the words will flow around it to the right and bottom, and it will be located in the upper left corner of the sheet. The second option implies its separate arrangement, when the rest of the text is to the right of the initial letters, as if written in another column.

Making an initial letter

Having understood what it is and how it looks in the program, you can go directly to how to make an initial letter in Word. So, we have a text that is divided into chapters. The user is faced with the task of highlighting the first letter of a new chapter, that is, making an initial letter. For this:

1. Place the cursor in front of the word from the first letter of which you want to make an initial letter.
2. On the toolbar, click on the "Insert" tab.
3. In the "Text" toolbar, click on the "Initial letter" button.
4. In the additional menu that appears, select the type of drop cap that suits you.

There are two types in total: “In the text” and “On the field”. They were described at the beginning of this article. Each type is entitled by an icon on which the final form of the inserted initial letter is shown. Click on the location you like and the letter will be installed. As you can see, doing it is not so difficult, it took four steps to complete the task.

Drop cap settings

So, we figured out how to make an initial letter in Word, but there is a chance that in the end you will not get the result that was originally conceived. In this case, you can manually configure the initial letters, which will be discussed now.

1. Open the drop cap menu and select "Options."
2. A window will appear asking you to specify all the necessary display settings.
3. In the column "Position" you can choose the place to display the initial letters, this has already been described earlier.
4. In the "Parameters" column, you can change the font if you want it to be different from the main text.
5. You can also change the height in the lines and the distance from the text by changing the values ​​in the corresponding input fields.

Having set all the necessary values, click OK. And the initial letter is set as you intended it.