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October 19, 2026
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How do I show shape names in the Shape menu in the new Lucidchart editor?

Since the latest update, the Shape menu only shows a grid of shape icons. The old list view that showed each shape's name next to its icon is gone. Many shapes look alike, so our team can't tell which one we need without hovering over each one.

Is there a setting or toggle somewhere to bring the list view with names back? If not, is that option planned? For now we've gone back to the Classic Editor, but we'd like to stay on the new one if we can assuming that there are plans to push everyone over to the new editor and going back to classic would not be a long term solution.

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Ambar D
Lucid community team
October 20, 2026

Hi ​@EricWhittaker, thank you for posting in the Lucid Community and for your feedback about the new Lucidchart editor. 

Would you mind sharing a screenshot of what you’re seeing on your end? Are you searching for shapes, or browsing through the shape libraries?

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