is there any way to make macros (automate tasks)?”
Instructions Step 1 Select the Content tool in the toolbar. Step 2 Single click in the paragraph in which you want the drop cap to appear. Step 3 Go to the Style menu and select Formats. Step 4 Select the Drop Caps checkbox. Step 5 Enter the number of characters in the drop cap (this can be a single character or the number of letters in an entire word). Step 6 Enter the number of lines (line count) you want the drop cap to span. Step 7 Click Apply. Step 8 Move the window out of the way to preview the drop cap. Step 9 Click OK to finalize the drop cap formatting.
Generally speaking the vast bulk of computer-based publishing is produced using a handful of major packages from an even smaller number of major developers. The range of work being produced, however, is staggeringly wide and no two users’ needs are exactly the same. Clearly what is needed is a way of tailoring the off-the-shelf packages to make them more closely match individual requirements. The key players, such as Quark and Adobe, have thought of this and encourage third-party development of their programs via open APIs (application programming interfaces) and SDKs (software development kits). Using the resulting plug-ins and XTensions the power of the underlying program can be developed into entirely new areas to provide picture-framing capabilities in Photoshop, for example, or table-handling in XPress. This is a big advance, but it only goes so far – after all the average designer is unlikely to be fluent in C++. What is also needed is a more do-it-yourself approach that puts the
