
Now you should be able to use your new shortcut for increasing word spacing.

It may be the Smooth Text feature I’ve read about in OS 10.4.8, though it doesn’t appear to have any effect on my machine.
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However, Robbie is correct: The Command-Option-\ often doesn’t work on people’s Mac OS X machines because something else on the Mac is grabbing that shortcut.

You can select a space character after using the shortcut to confirm this. Note that these keyboard shortcuts are actually just “macros” that select all the space characters in the selected text and change their kerning. Add the Shift key and you get 5x that amount (100 units each direction). The closing up works fine, but on some Macs the “add word space” doesn’t work!Īdobe doesn’t talk much about the shortcuts for adding and removing word spacing, but any proud owner of our Keyboard Shortcut Poster will know about them: Command-Option-Delete/Ctrl-Alt-Backspace closes word spacing by 20 units (you have to have more than one word selected for this to work, of course), and Command-Option-\ (backslash) or Ctrl-Alt-\ opens word spacing by the same amount. Word: Change the gap between a footnote and the separator line When you insert a footnote in Word ( References tab > Insert Footnote ), by default it gets added to the bottom of the page along with a short line and an empty paragraph to separate it from the body of the text.

Here’s a problem for you: I know there are keyboard commands for closing and opening word spaces.
