Please, tell me how to adjust line height / spacing

[PeterinJapan]

I have to translate a Japanese text document for my accountant, and every year they add or remove some lines on the form. I've got text to the left and right of my document indicating what is what inside the form, but I need to be able to set the line spacing...but there is no way to adjust line spacing, or that's what I've determined after trying to find the answer for two hours. Could someone help me? The goal is to b able to adjust the lines I have highlighted by pixel or point, but nothing I try is working.

 

[Old Bruce]

You need to Add the 2 points to the whatever size the font is. So for 12 point text with 2 points of space between the lines you need 14 points leading, not the 2 you currently have set.

[PeterinJapan]

Thanks for the reply. It's not working though. What I'm doing is: highlighting all the text in one of my text baloons, then entering 13 or 14 into the Leading section. Nothing changes with the text, not a single pixel movement up or down, no matter what value I enter here. I enter 13, or 130, or 500. I move the number up and down via the arrow keys, but the line spacing between my text does not move. Is it a bug perhaps? 

Note that I can increase the line spacing if I click on Space between same styles and increase this number. But I cannot decrease it (make the lines tighter), which is what I need to do. 

Any other advice? Once again, manipulating the numbers inside Leading: does not have any affect on text inside a text box. Could it be related to that I don't have a text style defined? 

 

[walt.farrell]

It sounds more like an effect from a Baseline Grid, if you're using Publisher (or if the document was created in Publisher)