Increase decrease leading shortcut not working in Illustrator

[Olivier5E9D]

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

[Ton Frederiks]

Looks like an InDesign shortcut.

[Olivier5E9D]

Do you know another way to have a shotcut for increase decrease leading in illustrator?

Thanks

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

I don't think that's possible without having an item in the Shortcuts list.

[samm9295286]

It was an Illustrator shortcut for years, until recently apparently because it doesn't work for me either 

[Kurt Gold]

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).

[Olivier5E9D]

Since the last version it works fine

[samm9295286]

I wish this were true for me, but something must be broken, with zero clue how to fix it

[Kurt Gold]

Sometimes some other applications, plugins, OS system utilities etc. do hijack shortcuts that seem to exclusively dedicated to the application that is in focus.

You may check that.

[CreativeStephY]

This is an old thread, but keyboard leading adjustment wasn't working anymore for me either (alt+arrow up/down.) Incase anyone else has this problem, I found the preference screen to fix it. It's under the "Type" preference screen at the very top: "Size/Leading:"  You can insert your custom preference in the box.

[Mads Jakob Poulsen]

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? 

[Anubhav M]

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

[Mads Jakob Poulsen]

My shortcut is back 🙂

This was the issue. It is working just fine now.
Odd thing is I do not remember ever changing this, or having a reason to change it - it was set to such a tiny increment that the shortcut had no effect. Thats why it seemed like it was not working at all. 

Thank you so much!!!