Sizing text with key commands

I recall seeing a co-worker use a sequence of key commands to resize text, but I can't recall what they were. Rather than highlighting text and going through a series of adjustments at regular increments until the text looked about right, the writer used this combination of keys to resize text in one step. I don't think she used free transform. Whatever she did, it was a great timesaver. Anyone have info on how to do this?

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1. (You're typing away, then when you want to resize some text) do:
2. Select the text you want to resize: Ctrl+A: all text in the current story; Esc: current text frame only; Shift+Ctrl+arrows: some characters. words, paragraphs. When you're through selecting,
3. Once or twice Ctrl+T (you should see the Character panel with the typeface name selected), now two taps on the Tab key. You're now in the point-size field, to resize,
4. Up/down arrows to set a different type size (Shift+up/down arrow to resize in bigger increments).
5. Press Enter to return the cursor to the text.
When you've done this once, you can go to the font-size field in one go by pressing Ctrl+` (Ctrl+` returns you to whichever entry field you were last).
Peter

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Edited by: Suhas Saha on Nov 17, 2011 11:19 AM

shawnTan wrote:
Hi All,
>
> Would like so to seek for you advice on the above mention topic. How to display the data with the same text and key using function module 'VRM_SET_VALUES'. From my testing by writing a program, this function module will only show the text and key if both have different data. Please find the coding as below. Is the normal behaviour of this function module? How to overcome this problem? Thanks in advance.
>
>
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>
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>       LIST TYPE VRM_VALUES,
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>
> *      c = 'select any'.
>
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>
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>       land1 like kna1-land1,
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>
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>
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>
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>
> <Added code tags>
>
> Moderator Message: Please use the "code" tags to format your code snippet.
>
> Edited by: Suhas Saha on Nov 17, 2011 11:19 AM
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