However, these letters will be smaller than the result you would get from typing in all normal capital letters. Highlight the section of text to be changed to small caps. What does small caps look like Any text that is created using the small caps formatting will look like it was typed as all capital letters, such as when you hold down the Shift key, or press Caps Lock. Be sure the first letter of the text is capitalized. Using the Keyboard To create small caps font, type the text first. If you use 21st century technology and buy OpenType fonts there's a good chance that you'll get the small caps and a bunch of other stuff thrown in at no additional cost. Select the Small caps option from the Effects menu. Bottom line - if you are using TT or T1 fonts, you'll either have to buy the small caps font if available or settle for fakery. It is a method of emphasis used when italics, bold or underlining may not be appropriate and all caps just seems a bit too loud.
ID will always use the OpenType small caps when available, but when they are not included it will fall back to font scaling according to the settings in your preferences, which is how all layout programs have always dealt with making small caps when the true small cap font was not available. First things first, what is Small Caps and why use it Small caps are used to emphasis text, in a more subtle way to all uppercase text. You can use the Capitalize Each Word command in the Font group. Make sure the beginning of each word is capitalized (Optional). OpenType fonts can contain THOUSANDS of glyphs and often have included small caps, ornaments, and glyphs for multiple languages in the same package, particularly the "Pro" designated versions, though the exact sets will vary from font to font. Select the text you want to apply the effect on. Bingo your ALL CAPS text is converted into small letters.
Copy paste this in to MS Word and select the full string.
Your instructor is correct only in the case of older TT or T1 fonts that don't have character sets large enough to include true small caps, so those glyphs must be supplied in a completely separate font (which you don't get automatically -you have to buy it). ANTIVIRUS, ANTISPYWARE,ANTIROOTKIT,ANTI-PHISHING, FIREWALL, ANTISPAM, PARENTAL CONTROL.