i have noticed in young children story's they always make the first letter very big(not changing the font size)there is a fancy way to do it on word and so next line you could type next to the massive letter.its what they do in young children story's and normally most books you can do it on word 2003 but how?

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You're speaking about inserting a Dropped Capital. This is how I'd do it in Word 2002:

1. Click in the paragraph you want to use the Drop Cap in. It seems to work automatically and exclusively on the first letter of the paragraph.

2. Click the Format->Drop Capital menu item.

3. Select your style and size

4. Click OK.

To change it, repeat the steps. Because it always works on the first character in the paragraph, you don't even have to choose the character.

Hope that helps.

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Use css. In < head > section of file set up

< style type="text/css" >

p.dropit:first-letter { font-size: larger; }

< /style >

Then in your < body > in each case where you want a very massive letter use

< p class="dropit" >Text of sentence and remember I added blanks to all code for Yahoo!< /p >

In the style statement you may have to diddle with a different font-size measurement and set up a padding and margin and maybe text-indent and line-height and stuff like that to position the massive letter properly.

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You’ll definitely have to change the font size, unless the font is programmed to be that huge at XX size. You can change the size of one letter, you know.

You can download fancier looking fonts from the link below. It has instructions on how to install them (5 mins tops)

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Find the letter you want to use as a jpeg file (try a google image search for alphabet) and place at the top left of your page, then type from the next position. I don't know what kind of trouble you'll have with allignment, but that's a start.
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Using word you would highlight the letter you want and change the font and size. There are many free fonts on the web,and there are some that mimic that style of writing.

Try searching on dafont.com or google free fonts.

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If you are on Microsoft Word or Publisher, go to insert, drop cap. A pane will come up with a choice of styles. (On Word 2007 drop cap is under the word art section.)