Photoshop CC - keyboard shortcut unit increments

Hi everyone. InDesign and Illustrator both have the options in their preferences to set unit increments that relate to altering type attributes such as font size, kerning, tracking, leading with keyboard shortcuts. For instance I like to be able to adjust tracking by 1/1000 em, leading by 1pt etc.
However, I can't find any way to set Photoshop up to do a similar thing. It defaults to 20/1000 em tracking increment. Anybody know a way to change that I don't?
Cheers
Keith

Have you tried a different keyboard to exclude a defective Option key?
How did you delete the Photoshop preferences. If you did that manually (very bad idea) try it the proper way:
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To re-create the preferences files for Photoshop, start the application while holding down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS). Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"

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