# Locking Letter Spacing

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locking-letter-spacing/319633>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 27, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locking-letter-spacing/319633 "2011-02-27T19:48:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![VeddyCent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@VeddyCent](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VeddyCent)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locking-letter-spacing/319633/1 "2011-02-27T19:48:37Z")

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Hey,

I have a textbox on the stage where its letter spacing is set to 4. When I change the textbox content with code the letter spacing goes back to 0.

So is there a way to lock the text spacing or do I have to create a textformat and keep resetting the text spacing?

Any help would be much appreciated!