Tip of the Week: Reset Tracking and Kerning
This InDesign tip on how to reset tracking and kerning was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on October 26, 2017.

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Need to reset the kerning and tracking for a range of selected text? Press Ctrl+Alt+Q on Windows. On the Mac side, things are a little more complicated since macOS uses Command+Option+Q as the default keyboard shortcut for Quit and Keep Windows, which overrides InDesign. So you need to assign a different shortcut to the command.
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You’ll find the command to reset kerning and tracking in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box in Product Area: Text and Tables
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This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on October 31, 2017
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