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Zoom without ctrl

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February 10, 2021
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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

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Vlad

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Christopher_Haws

@Masoud_Ardestani You can horizontal scroll by holding down shift while scrolling.

I agree, i would like to be able to toggle between ctrl+scroll and just scroll.

Frank12

Why is this not yet prioritized? It was the first thing I went looking for in the settings-menu, but it’s not there.

Please prioritize mouse wheel zooming without requiring a button! Take a look at Miro!

Nicolas_Uggla

Any updates on this? Still looking for it in 2022. If Figma fixes this they will be miles ahead of Adobe xd, where you have to still hold space bar to move around on canvas.

Luis10

New Member

I came here to upvote this request. Annoying as hell having to hold CTRL for that. Maybe it should be the other way around. Or a simple toggle in preferences to switch between using CTRL for scrolling up/down or zooming in/out. Then everyone is happy.

Ante_Susic

I’m here to upvote this request.

Clara

Figmate

Hi @VladVladVlad, thanks for highlighting this. I wanted to share how I primarily navigate around the canvas, in hopes that it might help with some of the zooming problems you and many others are experiencing.

Using the hotkeys z, spacebar, and shift + 1 generally covers all of my bases when I’m moving around. I’ve attached a gif to show how I use those three hotkeys together. I generally never use the scroll wheel, and didn’t even realize ctrl + scroll was a thing! (I’m so behind!) But you’re right, it can be so disorienting.

zoooom

Since I generally know where I want to zoom in on, I always hold down z so I can make my exact selection. The scrolling method makes me a little wheezy. My left hand is pretty anchored on the keyboard, and I don’t have to move my hands around too much.

Another method is to click down on your scroll-wheel as a way to pan (instead of holding down the space bar). I couldn’t capture this in the gif, and not everyone has a clicky scroll-wheel either, but I wanted to share just in case some of you do.

I hope that helps everyone! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with additional questions!