Increase decrease leading shortcut not working in Illustrator

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February 2, 2021
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Hello, previously the keyboard shotcut to increase or decrease leading worked fine (Alt+up/down). For a while, not only has it stopped working, but I can no longer find the place to change it in the menu of shotcut keyboards ...

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks

Correct answer Anubhav M

Hi, I amk still having this issue, have been accepting it for years now. Where do you mean this is fixable, are you in Keyboard shortcuts, or?

Hello @Mads Jakob Poulsen,

Would you mind changing the size/leading under the type preferences in Illustrator to see if it helps?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav

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Incredible_art2644

Participant

Check Preferences:

Go to Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Type (Mac).
Locate the Kerning or Tracking setting, which controls the incremental change for the arrow key shortcuts.
If this value is set to 0, the shortcuts will have no effect, so increase the value.

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Decreasing or increasing the leading with the Alt key + arrow up/down or Alt-Cmd key + arrow up/down still works fine here in the most recent Illustrator version (26.3.1 on Mac OS 12.4).