You can format text in Publisher 2000 in a variety of ways. Two ways to precisely adjust your text are "tracking" and "kerning." These tools manipulate the spacing of text characters to give your publication a more polished look.

Tracking

Tracking adjusts the spacing between two or more characters. You may want to squeeze letters closer together to fit into a frame, or spread them apart for a special effect. (Headlines are one example of the latter.)

Publisher offers five tracking options: Normal, Tight, Very Tight, Loose, and Very Loose. You can also set your own spacing by clicking Custom in the Character Spacing dialog box (Format menu). In the example below, "A" represents Very Tight, and "B" represents Very Loose.

Kerning

Kerning adjusts the spacing between specific character pairs that would otherwise appear too close together or too far apart. In the example below, "A" has not been kerned, while "B" has.

Publisher is set to automatically kern 14-point text and above. Text in smaller point sizes usually doesn't need to be kerned. To change the default size, under Automatic pair kerning, enter the point size you want (Format menu, Character Spacing). You can also kern individual character pairs manually to further adjust the spacing between characters.