Add Drop Caps in Word. A drop cap (dropped capital) ... Locate the Text section and click the icon, which is the alphabet A with lines on the right. Next, from the available designs, ...

Adding drop caps—large initial capital letters—to a paragraph is child’s play: In the Insert ribbon, simply click on the Add a Drop Cap icon in the Text tools.

Word treats the drop-cap letter as part of the word that follows it, so a spelling check will still function correctly. (For more information on spelling checking, see “10 Spelling Checker ...