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title: "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Text Formatting Shortcuts Keys"  
description: "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Text Formatting Shortcuts Keys"  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2013-04-05  
updated: 2017-11-28  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1241/adobe-photoshop-cs5-text-formatting-shortcuts-keys  
category: "shortcut keys"  
tags: ["shortcut keys"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Adobe Photoshop CS5 Text Formatting Shortcuts Keys

##### Select and Edit text

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| ctrl+drag type when Type layer is selected | Move type in image |
| shift+arrow keys, ctrl+shift+arrow keys etc. | Select [Characters](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42112/who-is-the-originator-of-avengers-characters): Use [Standard](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23223/naming-convention-or-coding-standard) Windows Editing Shortcuts |
| shift+click | Select characters from insertion point to mouse click point |
| shift+click | Create a new text layer, when a text layer is selected in the Layers panel |
| Double-click, triple-click, quadruple-click, or quintuple-click | Select a word, line, paragraph, or story |
| ctrl+h | Show/Hide selection on selected type |
| ctrl | Display the bounding box for transforming text when editing text, or activate Move tool if cursor is inside the bounding box |
| ctrl+drag a bounding box handle | Scale text within a bounding box when resizing the bounding box |
| space+drag | Move text box [while creating](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23125/something-happened-while-creating-a-switch-windows-phone-8-emulator-error) text box |

##### Format Type

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| Horizontal Type tool+ctrl+shift+l, c, or r | Align left, center, or right |
| [Vertical](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12951/how-to-fix-bootstrap-tab-vertical-with-text) Type tool+ctrl+shift+l, c, or r | Align top, center, or bottom |
| ctrl+shift+x | Choose 100% horizontal scale |
| ctrl+shift+alt+x | Choose 100% vertical scale |
| ctrl+shift+alt+a | Choose Auto [leading](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81146/lockdown-3-0-leading-to-open-alocholism) |
| ctrl+shift+q | Choose 0 for tracking |
| ctrl+shift+j | Justify paragraph, left aligns last line |
| ctrl+shift+f | Justify paragraph, justifies all |
| ctrl+shift+alt+h | Toggle paragraph hyphenation on/off |
| ctrl+shift+alt+t | Toggle single/every-line composer on/off |
| ctrl+shift+; | Decrease or [increase](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81392/why-sudden-increase-in-corona-cases-for-india) type size of selected text 2 points or pixels |
| alt+arrow down or arrow up | Decrease or increase leading 2 points or pixels |
| shift+alt+arrow down or arrow up | Decrease or increase [baseline](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96771/explain-the-term-baseline) shift 2 points or pixels |
| alt+arrow left or arrow right | Decrease or increase kerning/tracking 20/1000 ems |

##### Slicing and Optimizing

| ##### Key | ##### Description |
| --- | --- |
| ctrl | Toggle between Slice tool and Slice Selection tool |
| shift+drag | Draw square slice |
| alt+drag | Draw from center outward |
| shift+alt+drag | Draw square slice from center outward |
| space+drag | Reposition slice while creating slice |
| Right-click slice | Open context-[sensitive](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34778/recently-heard-about-ultra-sensitive-electronic-skins-what-is-it) menu |

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