What is keyboard command to drag/scale text in a bounding box?

[sonofmrsnak]

Sorry, should be simple, but no commands I'm doing,  shift-command, etc. are scaling the text in a visible bounding box, only the box itself.

Not seeing any answers Googling this topic.

CC2018

TIA

[Mike_Gondek · Accepted solution]

Sounds like you are in the selection tool trying to scale area text. That instead scales the container the text is in.

Hit E to switch to the transform tool instead and try.

If you had point text (text that is not in a container), the selection tool could scale the type. You can more easily confirm the difference in outline mode.

You can also do type >> convert to point type and then try.

[sonofmrsnak]

Thanks, I knew it was simple, just could not find anything on this.

E goes to the eraser tool. e goes to transform. 🙂

Transform tool does exactly what I was looking for.

[Mike_Gondek]

For my part you are welcome. Thanks for mentioning about lowercase e, that is what I should have typed.