Extra WIIIDE spaces

[gskidmark]

Having an issue in Designer where text spaces are exceptionally wide. See image. This is one of those issues that occur sometimes. It seems to appear and go away. I figure I mistakenly hit some mysterious keyboard combination that causes it to come and go. Any idea what causes this and how I can I can fix this?

Clarification: I am not referring to the tracking between the letters but the extra large space between JACKSON and HOLE. That is a single space.

[Old Bruce]

Looks like you have set the Justification to Full Justification. Try putting a Right indent tab in instead of a space. 

[gskidmark]

I found that in the Paragraph tab there is a setting called "Desired Word Spacing". As you can see it is set to 293% which is the cause of the problem.

 

[Old Bruce]

Odd, I cannot get more than 250% for those settings.

[gskidmark]

Odd indeed. I can not get it back to 293% now. I never purposely set it so I have no idea how it got to 293%.

[Old Bruce]

4 minutes ago, gskidmark said:

Odd indeed. I can not get it back to 293% now. I never purposely set it so I have no idea how it got to 293%.

Probably a copy paste carry over from some time in the past.

[NNN]

"Desired word spacing" can't go beyond "Maximum word spacing". You have to set "max..." first (which goes up to 400%).

[GarryP]

If the image layer above the text isn’t rectangular, and a portion of it comes down near the text, and the image has Text Wrap set, and the text is in a Text Frame, then the large gap may be due to the software moving the “HOLE” out of the way of the image. Lots of “ifs” but worth mentioning and checking. See attached video for a better explanation.

[Fixx]

Basically that just looks like you have tracked text to have a lot of space between letters, and also set test to Justified. Thus all extra space that is left over from tracking is poured to word spacing, making space between words big. (This is so simple explanation that I think there is something else happening that makes OP mystified 😉 )