basic illustrator text box question

[chicomore]

i'm new to illustrator and what i want to do is to put the first word of a text box in a bigger font as the do in magazine articles at the beggining. I know how to do this using more than one text box, however as this being pretty basic i suppose there must be a one (or maybe even two) step action to do it...

thanks,
chico

[pigbait75]

highlight just that word and go up in text size as many points as you want in the character box