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- In this movie, I'll
show you how to create

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this big, red drop cap that appears

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at the beginning of this first paragraph.

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I'll go ahead switch you
over to my document so far,

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and I will zoom in on that
first paragraph as well.

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And now, I'll double-click
between the W an the H

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in that first word, and I'll select the W

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by dragging across it,

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and then I'll press ctrl +
x, or cmd + x on the Mac,

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to cut it.

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Then I'll press the Escape
key in order to return control

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to the black arrow tool.

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And I'll ctrl + v, or cmd + v on the Mac,

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in order to paste that little letter.

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All right, so notice
that what we have here

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is a single letter of point text.

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It's aligned to the
left side of its point,

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which is going to work out beautifully.

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So now I'm just going to move
it down to the fourth line

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because I want this character
to be four lines tall.

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All right, now I'm going to
select the type size value

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up here in the control panel.

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And I'm just going to change it to 80 pt

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because I happen to know
that's going to work.

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I'm also going to click
inside of the type face field,

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and I'm going to dial
in Trajan once again,

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and this time I'm going
to select Trajan Pro.

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Not the bold one, just the regular style,

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in order to create this
big letter W right here.

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And now, with the fill active

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here inside the swatches panel,

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I'll go ahead and click
on that dark red fill

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R193 G39 B45,

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in order to produce this effect here.

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All right, now the question becomes

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how do we get the text to scoot over

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to allow room for the W?

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And the answer is to create a text wrap.

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Now, you can wrap text
directly around a character

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by going up to the Object menu,

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choosing Text Wrap,
and then choosing Make,

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at which point you'll
get this alert message

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telling you that the text is
going to wrap around the W.

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At which point, you just want to click OK.

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But notice that that gives
you way too much wrap.

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We should just be wrapping
the first four lines,

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not the first six, as
is happening right here.

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So I'm going to press ctrl
+ z, or cmd + z on the Mac,

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to undo that change,

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and instead, I'm going to draw a rectangle

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by selecting the rectangle tool

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from the shape tool flyout menu.

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And then I'll just go ahead and drag,

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from the intersection of
these two guides right here,

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down and to the right until I see

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a width value of 90 pt.

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A height of 61 pt is just fine.

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And by the way, you'll need
your smart guides turned on

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to see that little heads up display.

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All right, now we don't
want a fill or a stroke,

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so just go up here to the control panel,

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click on the first swatch,
and change it to none.

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And then, go to the
Object menu once again,

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choose text wrap, and choose Make.

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And that will create a
wrap around this rectangle

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that's going to effect
the text beneath it.

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So whatever object is doing the wrapping

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has to be on top of the text
that it's going to wrap.

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And it has to be on the same
layer as that text as well.

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Now, notice that in
addition to the rectangle,

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we have a little bit of an offset,

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which is represented by
the larger rectangle.

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I don't want that offset,

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and so to get rid of it,

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I'll return to the Object menu,

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once again choose Text Wrap,

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and this time I'll
choose Text Wrap Options.

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And I'll turn the Preview check box on.

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Notice that currently
our Offset value is 6 pt.

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We want it to be 0,

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at which point we'll see the
text get closer to the W,

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which is exactly what I want.

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So I'll go ahead and click OK.

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And then I'll press the
"v" key to switch back

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to the black arrow tool,

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and I'll click off the
rectangle to deselect it.

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And that's how you create a drop cap

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using the little known Text Wrap feature

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here inside Illustrator.

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In the next movie, I'll
show you how to wrap text

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around an actual graphic.