Incrementally adjusting type size

In this movie, I will show you some really handy tricks for changing the size of selected…text from the keyboard. I will save my changes as Trajan type.ai.…Now, before we resize the text--and we are going to be resizing this top line so it's a little bigger--…I want to go ahead and move my text into a better location.…So I am going to go ahead and drag it by its point, by that little sort of a anchor point,…that is the alignment point for the text, until it snaps into alignment with the upper…left corner of the margin, and then I'll press Shift+Down arrow five times in a row.…

So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and then I'll press the Up arrow key by itself in order to raise that…type just a little bit.…And this will end up looking exactly right, once we get done changing the type size.…So now I am going to double-click inside of my text in order to switch to the Type tool…and set the location of the blinking insertion marker, and then I'll triple click on that…first line of type to select it.…Now here's how to change the size of the type.…