On 06/14/2007 07:18 AM, Charles T. Kendall wrote: > The problem that I reported was that using Open Office Writer (2.2.1) on > a Windows XP system, I could not format drop caps. > > Procedure followed: > 1) Enter text. For example: > > Thursday > June 14 > 2007 > > on separate lines. > 2) Format [Paragraph] Drop Caps > 3) Click check-box for Display Drop Caps > 4) Settings: Characters 1, Lines 3, Space to Text 0.00 > 5) Click OK > > Capital letter T would not display as a Drop Cap. > > I just found the problem and the solution. I was using <Enter> to move > to the next line. This created a series of one-line paragraphs, which > OOW did not accept for creating drop caps. When I used <Shift+Enter> > instead, the drop cap displayed properly, both in Print Layout view and > in Preview. This is a difference between OOW and MS Word. Word will > allow creating drop caps even if you have used <Enter> rather than > <Shift+Enter> to move to the next line >
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