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VladVladVlad
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February 10, 2021

Zoom without ctrl

  • 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

Thanks
Vlad

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    JoonasHype
    July 11, 2023

    I think zooming by default with scroll wheel is an essential feature of any canvas based application. Please make the change or an option to do so. I use Figma daily, and I’m just holding down command-key all day.

      Ian12
      July 13, 2023

      I’m sitting here in 2023 wondering why this isn’t a feature…

        Iya
        Iya
        Active Member
        July 15, 2023

        this is a pretty straightforward feature to ask for and I am wondering if we can get some explanation for why Figma team is reluctant to do it?

        Is there difficulties in making this feature? Does it create problem for your team?

        What’s going on???

          CHERYL_LARSON
          July 26, 2023

          I agree. I am a new user and it is the FIRST thing I noticed. I am a heavy mural user. I’m surprised to come here and find this thread open for this long. Definitely want zoom on mouse wheel with no control hold.

            Iya
            Iya
            Active Member
            July 30, 2023

            If much smaller companies like Miro and Mural can implement this feature, there is no way figma can’t do it. The funny thing is that no moderator or anyone ever reply to this thread. Not sure if any one has seen it.

              Iya
              Iya
              Active Member
              July 30, 2023

              This issue is that I start to feel a little bit discriminated as a primary windows desktop user…
              Our user experience and efficiency is not as valued as folks who have laptop with large trackpads.

                Iya
                Iya
                Active Member
                July 30, 2023

                @figma if for whatever reason you can’t implement this feature. can you at least let us know?

                  Ian12
                  July 31, 2023

                  So weird that this is just going completely ignored by anyone from the Figma dev team

                    Julian25
                    August 3, 2023

                    I just started with Figma, it’s hard to untrain my muscle memory bc this is such a standard in just about any software. So sad to see that something like this gets ignored…

                      Iya
                      Iya
                      Active Member
                      August 5, 2023

                      It’s not like we are asking for a crazy feature.
                      Isn’t Zoom with scroll an industry standard for white boarding products?

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