How do I remove the center of the a?

[default6inuqzo2o0d6]

Hello, I used the curve tool to make a word but I cannot remove the gap in the middle. I want it to be transparent. How do I do remove it?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

You can try:

Select all: Object Compound Path > Make

[default6inuqzo2o0d6]

You mean on the center one or the middle one? I tried both and no luck

[Ton Frederiks]

Select both.

[default6inuqzo2o0d6]

While it worked for all other letters, for some reason, the a produced an error. "Can't make a compound path. all objects in a compound path must be paths and they cannot be brushed or be part of an object" 

I made it the same way as the rest.

[Ton Frederiks]

Hard to tell from your image how you build it. Can you expand it and try again?

[default6inuqzo2o0d6]

It worked, but now it's flipped (the outside is transparent and the inside is solid)

[default6inuqzo2o0d6]

nvm got it to work

Thank you for the help!

[default6inuqzo2o0d6]

I realised that there was an uncessnessary line connected so I had to undo it. Tried the same process and the outside is transparent again and the inside is solid again