Scale keyboard control in the Editor

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Is it just me :thinking:  or has the keyboard control for doing small scale increases (ctrl + the plus or minus) stopped working?

shift + the plus or minus still has a large effect, but ctrl + the plus or minus currently does a standard scale up/down.  There’s no fine control.

By comparison, the keyboard controls all still work as expected when moving objects.

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I noticed that yesterday. 

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It’s the same for me!

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It’s still working for me, but it’s concerning that y’all are having trouble. I consider that to be an ESSENTIAL function because resizing using the handles often leads to unintended results, like accidentally cutting off part of the image.

I’m using Windows 11 and Edge.

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I  just tried Ctrl+Alt + the plus or minus and it seems to work for small scale increases. I’m also using Windows 11 and Edge, so I wonder if this is the start of a new test phase for some designers!

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Well, dang, I didn’t know about that trick. :0

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It is not working for me.  I am on a Macbook using chrome.

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Interesting, that works for me too (right now using Google Chrome on a Chromebook, yet to try on my PC); but for movement, CTRL alone is enough, which makes me think this might be a bug. Good to know we have an alternative though, thanks :slightly_smiling_face: :+1:

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Hasn’t worked the past couple of days for me.

Windows 11 with chrome.

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I’m using Brave on a MAC.

I just tried using option + command + the keyboard plus or minus and it works. 

That option also works using the design tool plus or minus. So keyboard option + command + design tool plus or minus.

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Win 10 laptop, Firefox browser

All of the keyboard shortcuts listed Under Help - Shortcuts work for me EXCEPT
Scale Smaller ( - ) and Scale a bit Smaller ( Ctrl Alt - )
Absolutely nothing happens with the - option.

Also, ( Ctrl - ) to zoom out is bonkers. Instead of scaling the design area view down, it leaves that the same and instead scales down the entire page around it so both left and right menu areas become tiny. Trying to get it back to a normal view froze up my browser.

So for me, something goes wrong when the minus - option is used. 

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OK wait. Have these shortcuts changed or am I just losing my mind? I _ thought _ the shortcuts were:

    • or - was scale bigger or smaller
  • ctl + or - was scale a little bigger or smaller
  • shift + or - was scale a lot bigger or smaller

Those all still work, except that with or without the control key does the same thing. But I now see that the real shortcut for a little bigger & smaller is ctl alt and + or - and that does indeed give me a smaller step than plain control (or no control - which is appropriate since I seem to have lost ALL control! :drooling_face:)

Anyhow, it’s all still working for me even though I clearly don’t have any idea what I’m doing!

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That s good to know I mad not going mad too, not working for me either on Mac

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ARGH! Why change it??

So now it’s ctrl AND alt + or - for small changes?

WHY WHY WHY

Thanks for figuring that out. But I really hope it can go back to normal.

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So you remember the old shortcuts too? Does that mean that I’m not losing my mind?!?! :grimacing::thinking::roll_eyes::winking_face_with_tongue:

p.s. I discovered that if you click help and then shortcuts, it will give you a list of all of the keyboard shortcuts.

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Ahh, they must have changed it! You are right- we used to only have to use Ctrl to scale a little bigger or smaller. 

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