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You can improve text readability by adjusting the character and word spacing. When letters or words are too close together, or too far apart, they become difficult to read. CorelDRAW offers you different tools for controlling text spacing.
You can change the spacing between characters (also known as "letter spacing") in a block of text. For example, fully justifying a block of text may insert too much space between characters, which creates a visual imbalance. To improve readability, you can decrease the character spacing.
Increased character spacing (left) makes it difficult to read the text. Decreased character spacing (right) improves readability.
If you want to change the spacing between several characters, you need to adjust the kerning. For more information, see Kerning a range of characters.
You can also adjust the spacing between words.
Decreased word spacing makes it difficult to discern the individual words in a paragraph (left). Increased word spacing (right) makes easier to read the paragraph.
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Do one of the following:
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Using the Text tool
 , position the cursor in a block of text.
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Using the Pick tool
 , click an artistic text object or a text frame.
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If the Object properties docker is not open, click Window  Dockers Object properties. |
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In the Object properties docker, click the Paragraph button
 to display the
paragraph-related options.
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In the Paragraph area of the Object properties docker, type a value in the
Character spacing box.
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Values for adjusting spacing represent a percentage of the space character. The
Character values range from -100 to 2000 percent. All other values range
from 0 to 2000 percent.
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You can also change the character spacing proportionally by clicking the Shape
tool
 , selecting the text object, and dragging the Interactive horizontal
spacing arrow
 in the lower-right corner of the text object.
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| To adjust word spacing | |
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Do one of the following:
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Using the Text tool
, position the cursor in a block of text.
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Using the Pick tool
, click an artistic text object or a text frame.
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If the Object properties docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object properties. |
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In the Object properties docker, click the Paragraph button
to display the
paragraph-related options.
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In the Paragraph area of the Object properties docker, type a value in the Word
spacing box.
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You can also change the word spacing proportionally by clicking the Shape
tool
, holding down Shift, selecting the text object, and dragging the
Interactive horizontal spacing arrow
in the lower-right corner of the text
object.
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