Transform Tool cannot change type height and width independently

jane-e  wrote The new method is that constrain is the default for raster and the shift key allows you to distort. You can adapt to the current method or revert to the old using the steps here: https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/photoshop-proportional-scale-transform/

Interesting how I could not find the app 'Notepad' on my Mac under the Mojave OS... but there is an app called notes which is a cloud-based note program that does not save to disk... The plot thickens... Can I save a native basic text file from InDesign? I will try that... Whew, the world is becoming toooo convenient...

nope... can't do that either... I think I will call it a night and come back to this later but thank you for the right answers you guys.

Whew!... Thank goodness I have Word for the Mac on my machine, hardly ever use but it does save to .txt so it saved the day also.

Thanks again jane-e for complete instructions which I probably should have just adapted to the new way, but for fun went back to the 'old' way.

I'm very happy with the solutions I've been able to put to work today and thank you team at Adobe!

JJMack  wrote Adobe Change the operation to constrained foe some type of layers other vector layer still transform unconstrained.   The shift key is all messed up now  You can add a PSUserConfig.txt to your preferences to revert Transforms operation to it old consistent way.

The world is frightening sometimes... It seems simple things that could be improved are ignored and things that work fine are now 'fixed' to make them a nightmare... here come 'self-driving' cars... !