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Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Quickly Resizing Type

To enlarge or reduce the size of your type by 2 points, highlight the text, hold down Ctrl+Shift (Win) / Command+Shift (Mac) and press the < or > keys on your keyboard:

Hold down "Ctrl+Shift" (Win) / "Command+Shift" (Mac) and use the "<" and ">" keys to resize the type by 2 points.

To enlarge or reduce the type size by 10 points, highlight the text, hold down Ctrl+Shift+Alt (Win) / Command+Shift+Option (Mac) and press the < or > keys:

Hold down "Ctrl+Shift+Alt" (Win) / "Command+Shift+Option" (Mac) and use the "<" and ">" keys to resize the type by 10 points.

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Quickly Adjust Leading (Linespacing)

To quickly adjust the leading (the amount of space between two or more lines of text) by 2 points, simply highlight the lines you want to adjust, hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) and use the Up or Down arrow keys on your keyboard:

Adding more space between lines of text.

Hold down "Alt" (Win) / "Option" (Mac) and use the Up and Down arrow keys to adjust linespacing by 2 points.

To quickly adjust the leading by 10 points, hold down Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Command+Option (Mac) and use the Up and Down arrow keys:

Hold down "Ctrl+Alt" (Win) / "Comand+Option" (Mac) and use the Up and Down arrow keys to adjust linespacing by 10 points.

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Quickly Adjust Tracking (Space Between Groups Of Letters)

To quickly adjust tracking (the space between groups of letters or entire lines of text) by 20 em, highlight the lines you want to adjust, hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) and use the Left or Right arrow keys on your keyboard:

Adjusting the tracking by 20 em using the keyboard shortcut.

Hold down "Alt" (Win) / "Option" (Mac) and use the Left and Right arrow keys to adjust tracking by 20 em.

To quickly adjust tracking by 100 em, highlight the lines you want to adjust, hold down Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Command+Option (Mac) and use the Left or Right arrow keys:

Adjusting the tracking by 100 em using the keyboard shortcut.

Hold down "Ctrl+Alt" (Win) / "Command+Option" (Mac) and use the Left and Right arrow keys to adjust tracking by 100 em.

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Quickly Adjust Kerning (Space Between Two Letters)

To quickly adjust kerning (the space between two letters) by 20 em, simply click your mouse between the two letters you want to adjust (no need to highlight them), hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) and use the Left or Right arrow keys on your keyboard:

Adjusting the kerning by 20 em using the keyboard shortcut.

Click between two letters, hold down "Alt" (Win) / "Option" (Mac) and use the Left and Right arrow keys to adjust kerning by 20 em.

To quickly adjust kerning by 100 em, click your mouse between the two letters you want to adjust, hold down Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Command+Option (Mac) and use the Left or Right arrow keys:

Adjusting the kerning by 100 em using the keyboard shortcut.

Click between two letters, hold down "Ctrl+Alt" (Win) / "Command+Option" (Mac) and use the Left and Right arrow keysto adjust kerning by 100 em.

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Left-Justify Text

To quickly left-justify your text, simply click anywhere inside of it and press Ctrl+Shift+L (Win) / Command+Shift+L (Mac):

Press "Ctrl+Shift+L" (Win) / "Command+Shift+L" (Mac) to left-justify text.

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Center-Align Text

To quickly center-align your text, click anywhere inside of it and press Ctrl+Shift+C (Win) / Command+Shift+C (Mac):

Press "Ctrl+Shift+C" (Win) / "Command+Shift+C" (Mac) to center-align text.

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Right-Justify Text

To quickly right-justify your text, click anywhere inside of it and press Ctrl+Shift+R (Win) / Command+Shift+R (Mac):

Press "Ctrl+Shift+R" (Win) / "Command+Shift+R" (Mac) to right-justify text.

Type Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts: Preview Your Text With Different Fonts

To easily preview what your text would look like with different fonts, with the Type layer selected in the Layers palette, simply click on the font selection option in the Options Bar at the top of the screen, then use your Up or Down arrow keys to have your text switch between fonts:

Clicking the font selection option in the Options Bar.

Click the font selection option in the Options Bar, then use your Up or Down arrow keys to have your text switch between fonts.

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