How can I get letters to appear smaller/broader?

[KlausKi]

In Microsoft Office Word there is a font setting making font characters to appear smaller or broader:

Does Adobe Illustrator provide a similar setting?

[Barb Binder]

Choose Window > Type > Character

[Bill Silbert]

Man you have to be quick on these forums! there were no reply when I began to make my screen shot.

[Barb Binder]

Haha. I just happened to be sitting here when the question came in.

[Bill Silbert]

Barb Binder—the fastest screen shots in the west—or at least as far as the Rocky Mountains!

[KlausKi]

Thanks to you both for helping me out on this !

But, strange, I don't have these options available (Illustrator CC 2017):

Do I need to enable some option in order to get these available?

[Bill Silbert]

In the pull-down menu for that Panel (pull on the the horizontal lines on the top right of the panel) choose “Show Options” and they will appear.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Or, just click the up/down arrows in front of the panel name Zeichen.

It's worth a moment to consider those arrows. Whenever you see them on any panel, you can click on them repeatedly to toggle through the views. The Character panel has three: collapsed, partially open, open all the way. You need to open it all the way to see the scaling commands.

[KlausKi]

Marvellous!! Works like a charm.

Thanks a lot

[Barb Binder]

Always happy to help.

[Jacob Bugge]

Klaus,

There is Horizontal Scale in the Character palette, which makes the letter(s) broader/narrower.

But the image shows Character Spacing, which is regulated with Kerning or Tracking in the same palette.

[Bill Silbert]

Yes. In the character Panel horizontal and vertical scale can be adjusted using the fields outlined in the screen shot below:

[Prosper Ken]

Wow Thanks,  had same problem but after getting your solutions it works like charm on an (Link removed by moderator).