How do you change line spacing?

[Blane]

I have some multi-line text that has vertical line-spacing that is too much.  How do I change line spacing?

[MattP]

Hi Blane,

 

Just select your text and on the Text context toolbar that appears along the top you want to dropdown the list that is next to the alignment/justification buttons - it controls Paragraph Leading which is what you want to change. As you move over the different items in the list you should see the change happening dynamically on your document - just click when it looks right :)

 

Thanks,

Matt

[alansky]

My question is: Why isn't the line spacing (leading) control in the character pallette where it belongs? To put such a basic text adjustment in a different location makes no sense to me.

[Dave Harris]

Leading is not in the Character palette because it is not a character attribute. It is a paragraph attribute because you normally want all the lines in a paragraph to be spaced evenly. We also put it in the context toolbar, so you do have quick access to it.

[uncle808us]

Handy... Thanks

[Nanana]

I find it dreadful. I've been fiddling with it for 30 minutes now and can't find it. 

[Nanana]

Seriously, how do you do it? It should be an easy button. Adobe is evil, please don't make me subscribe to them again. 

[Nanana]

I am on the space thing, I try to change it in all the ways I can. I selected my text. Please, please, please,make this easier. 

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, Nanana said:

I am on the space thing, I try to change it in all the ways I can. I selected my text.

Have you checked for a Leading Override in the Character panel? If you have one, remove it.

Have you checked to see if you have a Baseline Grid set? Edit: It shouldn't be that, as you're in Photo and it's a Publisher-only function.

What actually happens when you try to make the Leading change?

[Nanana]

Nothing happens. There might be a leading override. Where do I find it?

To be honest, I duplicated the layer and now each line is a layer, and I just dragged it where I wanted, so I could finish the banner, but this might be important in the future. 

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, Nanana said:

Where do I find it?

In the Character panel.

[Nanana]

Wasn't I in the character panel?

[Oufti]

As indicated in your screen capture, you were in the Paragraph panel. 

To access the Character panel, you could click on the button marked "a" in the context toolbar or go in menu Window > Text > Character.  

[Nanana]

OK. I saw that panel, but there was nothing about line spacing in it.

Oh, I saw it. Why is is in two different places? 

Thanks so much to everyone who replied. 

[Komatös]

9 hours ago, Nanana said:

Oh, I saw it. Why is is in two different places? 

One is for the character related settings, the other is for the paragraph settings. A logical separation that is not only made in Affinity programs.

And sometimes it is even better to split multiline decorative text, in your case "of fire & fae" into two text boxes. Here I would even recommend graphic text. But that would be my approach.