Why am I losing my Text Format?

Ok, so I’m not in any kind of real AS trouble, but I’m miffed.

I have a TextField. I have set ‘letterSpacing’ for my text field because I think the letters are too far apart. Then when I want to manipulate the text in my TextField, I do this:

TextField.text = “my new text”

…But when I do this I lose my nicely spaced effect, and the text goes back to how it was - all far apart!!

So I have to set the letterSpacing using a TextFormat object EVERY time I reset the TextField.text. Now why on earth would this be? Does anyone have the same thing, or am I doing it wrong? eek!

anyway, if anyone could either ***** about this or shed some light on it I’d be very greatful.

Thanks,

Tyler