So we have the Type highlighted. We have got nothing selected here at the top and we want to use the keyboard shortcut to change the size. If you hold down Shift and Command or Shift and Ctrl on the PC and use the .(period) or (comma) keys to scale the type up or down one at a time.
So I am going to use the .(period) key at this point to increase the Type size and you will notice that it's gone from 11 to 13, to 15, to 17; basically it's jumping two points at a time. I want to bring this down because the ultimate aim is for this type to end up around 6.75. I want it tight and small, and this isn't going to work for me because this keyboard shortcut is too big.
Well that can also be changed and it's not through the regular keyboard shortcuts that we looked at earlier on. It's in fact through the preferences. So press Command+K or Ctrl+K on the PC to bring up the Preferences dialog like before and go down once again to the Units and Increments settings right here. And you can see them down at the bottom.
The Keyboard Increments for the Cursor Key, when you move an element around just using the arrow keys, Size/Leading, Baseline Shift and Kerning. These are the three that we could end up using. This is the problem right here, two points every keyboard shortcut.
So let's highlight that and change it down to 0.25, make it much more accurate, and let's also do the same with Baseline Shift, just hit the Tab key, jump across and make the change. Kerning also, when we do letter-spacing or kerning, twenty thousandths of an em is another big jump. So let's drop that down to 5, okay.
So those have now been changed. If we go ahead and hit Return or hit OK, we can now use the same keyboard shortcut and you will notice in the dialog box at the top is moving now only a quarter of a point. So we have got much more accuracy to get this down to exactly the right size. So keep going down until you see 6.75.
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