Line break doesn't follow text formatting

[KarenCityofSacramento]

Hi all,

I have this issue where the first line break of each of these text boxes is biggerthan the rest. I have the character and paragraph panels up with all the text selected to show that it should all be consistent. When I highlight the first name in a box and try to adjust the "-80" for the "space after paragraph", it does nothing. Same with the line spacing. I have also tried copying and pasting into new boxes and typing it back out again and it doesn't fix it. The only thing that works is if I scale everything up so that the "space after paragraph" is -40 or above then it starts moving but that doesn't do me a lot of good since I need everything at it's current size. I guess I could outline everything and manually move it but the list needs to remain editable for now and that's a pain. Thanks!

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

So those are all paragraphs? Can you perhaps turn on the invisbile characters?

And also show us the paragraph formatting?

And how is the area type options set up?

[KarenCityofSacramento]

Hi Monika, I made this post was made on the wrong account. So to avoid bombarding the account owner with messages, would you mind switching the conversation to the one in the link. It's identical, just under the correct account. Thank you!

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/line-break-wont-change-size-in-text-box/m-p/1...