Reset your InDesign tracking & kerning with a keyboard shortcut

InDesignWhen you have a lot of text selected which you have kerned and/or tracked out and you simply want to reset all of it to zero, you can either go to the tracking and kerning input boxes in the Control Bar and do it manually, or you can do it the easy way.

With all your text selected, simply hit Command (Apple) + Option + Q. All your kerning will return to normal. Don't you just love keyboard shortcuts! This works in Adobe CS2 and CS3.




Very useful. My only gripe

Very useful. My only gripe is that it can't be used when the text box is selected with the selection tool.





Is this somewhere in the menu?

In case I forget the shortcut while I'm working, that is...

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I don't think so

I don't believe it's in any of the menus. I know what you mean though. I frequently have to adjust the baseline shift of a few characters and can never remember the keyboard shortcut - until of course the one time I'm not in a hurry.



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