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› › HOW TO- QUICKLY DISTORT OR
CHANGE THE SIZE OF
LIVE TEXT
Whether you’ve set point text or
paragraph text, you can distort the
text and still have live, editable text.
With your type cursor inserted in
the text, press-and-hold the Com-
mand (PC: Ctrl) key, and you’ll see
a Free Transform-like bounding box
appear around the text. If you hover
the cursor below any point of the
bounding box until it changes to
a white arrow, you can click-and-
drag to skew the text box to how
you want it. All the text inside will
remain editable.
Sometimes the obvious tips are
still unknown! You can also click-
and-drag any point to resize the text
(hold the Shift key to maintain pro-
portions). You can check this in the
Character panel or Options Bar to
see that the point size has changed.
Plus, you can click-and-drag any-
where outside the bounding box
to rotate the text. (Note: With para-
graph text, you don’t have to hold
the Command [PC: Ctrl] key to
rotate the text.)