Canva Shortcuts To Help You Make Your Visual Content Faster
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2 min readSep 5, 2022
I love using Canva to make graphics and visual content for articles, but I hate when I get stuck because I have to find a way to do something basic!
I found some Canva keyboard shortcuts to make our lives a little easier and create visual content faster.
So you don’t have to!
Shortcuts to Move Elements
- Moving elements 1 pixel: Press the
arrowkey once for the direction you need to move 1 pixel at a time. - Moving elements 10 pixels:
shift+arrow keypointing in the direction you need. - Deselect element:
esckey
Text Shortcuts
- Add text to the graphic: Click the area to add text and press
Tkey - Change text to uppercase:
command/ctrl+shift+K - Left alignment:
command/ctrl+shift+L - Right alignment:
command/ctrl+shift+R - Center alignment:
command/ctrl+shift+C - Copy style to another text box:
command/ctrl+option/alt+C - Past style to another text box:
command/ctrl+option/alt+v
Other Shortcuts
- Undo action:
command/ctrl+Z - Redo action:
command/ctrl+Z - Select All elements:
command/ctrl+A - Show grid lines:
command/ctrl+colon or : twice - Group elements:
command/ctrl+G - Zoom In or out:
command/ctrl+plusor-key - Add or remove selected elements:
shift+click surrounding elements - Select an element from behind another one:
command/ctrl+click the overlapping elements - Duplicate or copy an element
command/ctrl+option/alt+C
You can find this information and more on Canva.com.
You can also look at a poster with these Canva shortcuts right here.
Read this post and more on my Typeshare Social Blog
