Hello. Here's my dilemma. I've searched for it to no avail, so sorry if it has been asked.


My drop cap keeps jumping to the top of the page.



Any idea what might be causing this?

Assuming you are using the tool on the Insert tab to add the dropped cap - https://support.office.com/en-us/art...8-f3c0f5e01278 it is difficult to imagine what might have occurred here. Does it still do so in a new document? Can you post a simple example that can be investigated directly?

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Graham Mayor - MS MVP (Word) (2002-2019)
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A drop cap is framed text with an anchor. It is possible that the anchor has somehow moved onto the wrong paragraph.

Select the drop cap and you should see an anchor icon appear somewhere near the start of a paragraph. Double click that anchor to see the settings for the frame position. The Vertical position and "relative to" is the thing you should be looking at. And you can lock the anchor to the correct paragraph to be sure it doesn't move to some other paragraph.

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If you right-click the border of the drop cap and select the Drop Cap command, Word displays the options dialog box for the drop cap. Verify that you have the options that you want and then click OK to confirm. Does that improve things?

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