I'm sure if I played with this for another 3 days I could figure it out .. however ..
So I've created a layer of type (specifying the margin borders) .. and typed my message. Now I've decided that i want the margins for the type to be narrower. How do I change the size of margins for the type WITHOUT changing the font size that already exists within them? I think I did it once by accident ..but don't know what I did. Using Photoshop CS5