Yesterday, you resized an Illustrator text frame and the text reflowed, staying the same size. Today, you enlarged an Illustrator text frame and the text grew right along with it. How do you force Illustrator to act the way you want it to?

Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and author of several books on Illustrator, often gets questions about scaling text in Illustrator CS, CS2, and CS3. For example, someone scales his text frame only to find that the text within the frame becomes scaled as well. He wants to simply resize the frame, allowing the text within to reflow without changing size. Sometimes it works as he wants it to, while other times, it doesn't -- which leads to frustration and acts of computer violence. Why this seemingly inconsistent behavior?

Mordy covers the differences between Illustrator's two text options: Point Type and Area Type, as well as how to properly scale text in Illustrator in this article at CreativePro.