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Is there a keyboard-mouse key combination to add more white space between objects? I have a large chart of blocks, mostly text boxes with arrows and lines. I want to insert items in the middle of my chart but don’t have room. The clunky way to do it is to of course select all items to one side and then move them altogether. But I’m surprised if there isn’t a way to easily use your cursor to “drag” more white space in between objects. A lot of other graphical software programs have functionality like this. 

Yes, there is a keyboard-mouse key combination for that. Hold shift, then right-click and drag. Does this do what you’re looking for?

(Ignore the weird colors. My video converter isn’t fantastic.)


That’s exactly what I was looking for, just couldn’t find the correct key combination. Thank you! Is there a document that lists all the keyboard shortcuts?


While in the editor, you can go to Help → Keyboard Shortcuts or hit F1 to bring up a list. This one isn’t in that list, however. I believe it was created recently, so it probably just hasn’t been updated yet.


Does anyone know how to do this in LucidSpark? 


Hi @ksnyder

The same shortcut works in Lucidspark: hold shift, right-click and drag.

Hope this helps!


This used to work the other way around also, where you could bring shapes closer together/remove the space between.

It only seems to move them farther apart now. Was something changed? Is there a different way to  make them closer now (without individually selecting each shape?)


Hi ​@ChrisNJ, thank you for continuing this thread! That’s a great question, I am currently checking internally for some additional insight and will share an update here as soon as I have more details. Please let us know if you have any questions in the meantime! 


Hi ​@ChrisNJ, thank you for your patience! Our engineers confirmed that there currently isn’t a way to bring shapes closer together, but we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. Please first search the Product Feedback section of this community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request.

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