Drop caps 'issue'

[hohriver]

I am designing a 32-page catalog for a literary press. I want to use Drop caps in the excerpts which appear on each page, and I would like this to be uniform and consistent.

However, I'm only having about 50% success at transforming the first character ( sometimes two characters, when a quotation mark is included ) into a drop cap. The other half of the time, when I click in the paragraph and attempt to apply the paragraph style which has the drop cap attribute, absolutely nothing happens. Try as I might, I cannot then select the letter or characters and through any menu choice, create a drop cap.
This is really driving me up the wall. Why does it work sometimes, not others? Anyone? thank you. RL

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[MarcusStringer]

Is there a + symbol on the Para Style before you applied it to the Paragraph?

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[hohriver]

Marcus,

Thank you for responding to my Drop Caps question.
No, I don't believe there is a red '+' on the Style...

I had to make a deadline on this project so I did my
best to convey a sense of unity throughout the catalog; however, I was NEVER able to insert Drop Caps into any of the paragraphs which it failed to work in on the first attempt.

It's like something 'stuck' which was not visible or available for me to delete or replace? Something like this sometimes occurs when I FTP files to my host server. I have found the only way to 'fix' this bug is delete the 'file' from the server and resend. Perhaps that's what I need to try in InDesign: delete the paragraph, and reinsert?

Thank you again for your assistance.

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[MarcusStringer]

I mean this Plus symbol...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au