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VladVladVlad
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February 10, 2021

Zoom without ctrl

  • February 10, 2021
  • 115 replies
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On PC i want to explore figma document with only mouse, but i can’t zoom in/out without keyboard - I have to hold down the Ctrl with the other hand. On a Mac, there is no problem: gestures on the touchpad make zooming convenient.

At the moment we can scroll through a document by dragging it with the left mouse button or by scrolling horizontally, but to scroll horizontally (which is also often used as vertical scrolling) you have to hold down Shift, which is rather illogical for a map-like interface.

Can you add a switch like the existing “Invert Zoom Direction”? That would solve my problem.

This feature was already requested in 2017: https://spectrum.chat/figma/feature-requests/zoom-with-mouse-wheel~04d1784d-827c-4363-9404-ffddc91bcfef

Thanks
Vlad

115 replies

Alexander_Priyomko
September 28, 2021

In addition to the fact that we have no way to zoom without control, the Figma developers contain incorrect information in their tutorial.

Please, developers, add the ability to switch zoom modes.
In fact, it makes no sense page to scroll up and down with the mouse wheel, because this functionality is available when you press the middle mouse button.

Yurij_Gapon
October 20, 2021

Voting for this as well

Sodiq_Bakare
November 5, 2021

very bad ux from figma.
we shouldn’t be talking about this in 2021

November 14, 2021

Agreed, this need to be toggleable!

Dawid4
November 18, 2021

Please add this feature.

Guy1
December 3, 2021

please add toggle to make scroll wheel zoom without keyboard input

Richard-Allen
December 11, 2021

YES!!! I am new to using Figma after years of using other online whiteboard spaces and decades of design software. And there are so many wonderful features in Figma and Figjam that I am really excited about but - BUT the cntrl + wheel to zoom is so painful, I am even wondering if it is worth it.

vdoerfer
January 6, 2022

Yes, I agree. It feels really unnatural that the mouse wheel doesn’t scroll

Slim_Spanner
January 12, 2022

Why isn’t anyone from Figma not even replying to this super silly CTRL + Zoom? Atleast be mindful of the pain atleast some of your users are going through?

Masoud_Ardestani
January 18, 2022

How do I scroll horizontally with my mouse???