Setting the first charater of a paragraph as script

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My partner wants a book of poems set up such that the First character is a
large birckley script 14 pt 12 pt lead, followed by the rest of that line
being copperplate light 10 pt 12pt leading
All other lines in that para to also be copper plate light 10 pt 12 pt
leading.

Next para again to start with First charater larger brickley scriptand so on
There are 400 poems, can I set up a mixture of fonts in one para style or
do I have to set the basic style then plod through every para changing the
first Charater one at a time?
Help I have a day job!

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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My partner wants a book of poems set up such that the First character is a
large birckley script 14 pt 12 pt lead, followed by the rest of that line
being copperplate light 10 pt 12pt leading
All other lines in that para to also be copper plate light 10 pt 12 pt
leading.

Next para again to start with First charater larger brickley scriptand so on
There are 400 poems, can I set up a mixture of fonts in one para style or
do I have to set the basic style then plod through every para changing the
first Charater one at a time?

This formatting would need to be done paragraph by paragraph; it can't be
defined as part of a style. You could probably speed things up a bit with a
macro, though. If you record applying the formatting to the first character of
a single paragraph, we should be able to show you how to alter the macro to
process all paragraphs in the document. (Note: please tell us the version of
Word involved.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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