I cannot make Drop Caps work as it did only a few days ago. If the paragraph needs to be inset from the left, the drop cap and the following line or 2 are moved further to the right than the bulk of the selected text. Has anyone else experienced this?
It's what is being generated by InDesign now. I want the drop cap to align with the inset left margin. If the margin were to the left-most position (not set toward the right) the drop caps seem to work fine, but it steps in further than required/expected, when the left margin is moved right.
In your first screenshot, it seems that you have applied an indent on the first line only, and since the drop cap is on 2 lines, the indent applies to the first 2 lines. Did you try to apply the indent on the whole paragraph?
I have applied it to the whole paragraph - it is as though the drop cap line and the following line, have been stepped in further - with no input from me!
For further context, I have Imported most of the text from MSWord (which I have been doing frequently since I started to use InDesign 5 or 6 years ago), but even when excluding all formatting from the import, this still applies. I have tried cutting and pasting from a previous document where the formating is correct, only to find this problem appears with the new text.
Nothing weird in your settings but I see that you have overrided the paragraph style (the small + sign), so I think that there is an indent on the first line. Can you show the paragraph panel (not the paragraph style panel)? What happens if you remove the override?
Is it possible for you to save this double page as a separate IDML and as an INDD and open both files again? If that does not work, please upload these two files (without confidential data) to a hoster of your choice (e.g. Dropbox or similar) and post the link here in the forum.
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