Fast Learner But .... ???

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So I have this resume file, in one box, it has the text right below it,  I duplicated it, then changed the text, it seems to be double-spaced.

 

I'll include a few images.  Thing is and not sure why this is, but give me GEOMETRY/ALGEBRA and I can get lost.  Let me see some Calculus or Quantum Physics as this is always easier to understand.  Whats wrong with me?  Thanks.  (for real).  But need to figure out how to work with TEXT, that's why the best tutorial on it would be appreciated, (ALL ABOUT TEXT), then I suppose, KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ?!

 

 

Thanks, everyone.  Including file (image, snapshot cropped.  I copied a box, RIGHT SIDE  IS HOW I WANT THE SPACING (next row)

SEE Attached image.

Peace and HAPPY THANKSGIVING AGAIN TO THOSE THAT CELEBRATED.  AND HAPPY (fill in the blank) to anyone celebrating "anything" today!

 

FWIW, I always had a problem with illustrator too - -not sure why other programs come without me looking at a manual.  (sometimes/grin)

 

 

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Text is one of those subjects that seems like it should be pretty straight forward, but if you ever see people talking about it online who deal with it for a living, it's a lot more in-depth than it initially appears and is a bit over my head too.

For what you're doing though, I think where the confusion usually comes is because people were originally used to pressing the return key once to go to the next line and if they wanted a new paragraph they would press the return key twice, which would give them a space between paragraphs.  The problem with this approach is although it's OK for a short bit of text, it's not particularly scalable for documents where you may want to change the formatting later on.

So the more common approach is to use pretty plain text and then use settings/paragraph styles/etc. to determine how the text actually appears in the document.  Therefore when inputting your text, the correct way would be to press shift + return to just go to the next line (which is called a Line Break), and press the return key once to go to a new paragraph.