Tip: Kern Commands
Increase and decrease the kerning between two characters in 1/20-em increments by inserting the text-editing cursor between them and pressing Command+Option+] and [ (Mac OS) or Ctrl+Alt+] and [ (Windows).
Press the Shift key at the same time and you will alter the kerning in 1/200-em increments.
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