Expanding Font Height not Width

[RaeKenny-Rife]

Does anyone know if it's possible to expand Font Height without expanding the width of the text. I am fitting street labels on an atlas where there is a lot of crowding. The labels would be more readable if I could expand their height but keep the width the same as you can do in photoshop and other programs.  Thanks.  Rae

[IanMurray]

Under the formatted text tab when editting text labels, you can control the character spacing and the character width of characters in labels or other text.  I don't believe you can directly control the height, but playing with the character width, character spacing, word spacing, and font size, you might be able to get closer to what you want.