Why is Optical Margin Alignment greyed out in Illustrator?

Not sure why this option is grayed out in the Type dropdown toolbar. Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer Monika Gause

Don't select the text, but select the text object with the selection tool

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Is your text an area text object? It should be.

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Is it still grayed out when you select the text using the Selection Tool?

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It is greyed out with text selected. Yes, text is a area text object.

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Don't select the text, but select the text object with the selection tool

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