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Josh_Gorman
New Member
December 19, 2023

Keyboard shortcuts for union, subtract, intersect, exclude selection

  • December 19, 2023
  • 6 replies
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I love using Figma with my Stream Deck!

I’ve created every shortcut I can on it, but there are a few that are missing in the UI. The most obvious for me are the union, subtract, intersect, and exclude selection buttons. I saw that Figma is releasing their own Figma Creator Micro Keyboard which excited me that the Keyboard Shortcuts might be further expanded. Fingers are crossed!

6 replies

djv
Figmate
Community Support
December 20, 2023

Thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto our team for consideration.

aayush
August 5, 2024

i am not able to use subtract tool in Figma how i can use it ??

y_toku
Figmate
Community Support
August 7, 2024

Hey there,

The video tutorial is helpful to understand how to use it. Can you take a look?

I hope it helps!

Thanks,
Toku

r_sh
Active Member
October 24, 2024

Unfortunately the new UI makes it even harder to use boolean operations. A keyboard shortcut to perform actions such as “union selection” would GREATLY improve our workflow.

Adzetko_Hohengarten
November 25, 2024

I agree with everyone here. Since my first days using Figma, I wished for a keyboard shortcut to do booleans operations. I thought the new UI would add that, but apparently it didn’t, and made it even one more click away. Is this an explicit design choice to exempt boolean operations from keyboard shortcuts? Or is this just a missing feature?

Artem Lygin
New Member
January 31, 2025

Yes please! I’m using Pie Menu, but I’m not able to add boolean operators to it because none of them has a hot key.