In X8 these tools seemed to work differently.
Here's the Character Spacing Tool:
Heres the Range Kerning Tool: (use on the "T" character only)
It seems to just make the tracking of the text swished on one side and thats it.
I want to make the spacing of the text near the top closer to the spacing of the rest of the text. How do I do that?
You can ignore this post. I messed around with the graphic and realized the curve that was used for the text path was deleted at some point and that's why those tools weren't really working.