Use character spacing

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Character spacing allows you to increase and decrease the space between characters in a document, spreadsheet, or presentation. This can be used to improve readability, give a more modern look to your content, or control the text layout on a page. In this article, you’ll learn how to modify character spacing from the toolbar and within style guides.

Apply character spacing

Editors and Owners can modify the character spacing within a document, spreadsheet, presentation, chart, or embedded table. Within these features, character spacing can be applied to text, cell content, and links. 

Apply character spacing to text 

To apply character spacing to text: 

1. Highlight the text you wish to modify.
2. From the Edit tab, click Character Spacing.
   
3. Select one of the preset spacing options or enter a Custom value. You can place your cursor in the custom value field and choose the up or down arrows to increase or decrease the character spacing.
4. The changes will be applied to the highlighted content.

Apply character spacing to tables

To apply character spacing to a table: 

1. Highlight the cells or cell content you wish to modify.
2. From the Edit tab, click Character Spacing.
   
3. Select one of the preset spacing options or enter a Custom value. You can place your cursor in the custom value field and choose the up or down arrows to increase or decrease the character spacing.
4. The changes will be applied to the highlighted content.

Apply character spacing to links

To apply character spacing to links: 

1. Highlight the link(s) you wish to modify.
2. From the Edit tab, click Character Spacing.
   
3. Select one of the preset spacing options or enter a Custom value. You can place your cursor in the custom value field and choose the up or down arrows to increase or decrease the character spacing.
4. The changes will be applied to the highlighted content.

Set character spacing in a style guide

If you’re a file Owner, you can set the style in a style guide. To do this, you can either create a new style guide and set the character spacing, or you can update an existing style guide. 

Note: Making changes to an existing style guide will update the content that has that style applied.

To set character spacing in the style guide:

1. From the Edit toolbar, click the Styles menu.
2. Select Edit Style Guide to open the style guide editor.
   
3. In the Spacing section of the Style Editor, apply the character spacing changes you wish to make.
   
   

   Note: You can select the lock icon to prevent users from making changes to the character spacing while editing content that has this style applied. 

4. Select Publish to apply changes to the style guide.