When you want small caps, you format the text with the small-cap font. Usually, small caps come in their own font file that shows up separately in the font menu. If you want real small caps, you’ll have to buy them-they’re not included with Times New Roman or any other system font. The rules for all caps also apply to small caps: use small caps sparingly, add letterspacing, and turn on kerning. (Even when you’re using a font with real small caps.) This option does not produce small caps. One way to make titles stand out in Microsoft Word 2003 documents such as flyers, promotional mailings, or announcements is to write titles in all caps. It was easy inearlier versions '97, '03 and '00.Any ideas Or am I jsut missing something. Summary: Apply Word 2003’s Small Caps feature to titles and other text that needs to stand out. The color and height of real small caps have been calibrated to blend well with the normal uppercase and lowercase letters.ĭon’t click on the small-cap formatting box in your word processor. I can't seem to find a way to make small caps in World 2007. But compared to the other characters in the font, the fake small caps that result are too tall, and their vertical strokes are too light. Small-cap formatting works by scaling down regular caps. Word 2010 Beta represents a step forward in typographical features.
Typographers use the word color to refer to how light or dark a text block appears on a page (even if all the characters are black).
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