"Resetting" stretched text

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June 19, 2024
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It may be a stupid question for all you proffessionals, but I only use Illustrator to fix up dimensional drawings that I import from a pdf. So no drawing, just fixing up.

If I (or the person who created the pdf) stretch text (to make it smaller in width), how do I reset it to standard width? I haven't found anywhere where I can see in % how much the text is stretched. When I see a text today that I want to have in normal size, I have to re-write it as I don't know how to reset it...

Lena

Correct answer Doug A Roberts

In the Character settings:

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Selecting all and hitting the default key combo for uniform type (Shift-Ctrl-X or Shift-Cmd-X) may also help.

nphillips82

Inspiring

I know this is old but thank you! I had stretched some text height and then every time I went to use the text tool the type was stretched in height no matter what font I chose. Obviously tracking doesn't apply but this helped!