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Aleksander K
September 3, 2026
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Bring back the formatting bar

  • September 3, 2026
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Today, the upper formatting bar was replaced with what seems to be contextual floating formatting UI. Which is extremely unproductive, and fails to display formatting options that I need at the moment. 

Please stop introducing unnecessary “improvements”. When a user is actually working, they don’t have time nor urge to play with changes to UI. 

And BTW, please allow me to post a ticket without the need to select a tag. I don’t know your taxonomy. Please tag tickets by yourself. It’s going to be more accurate.

Best answer by Zuzia S

​@Aleksander K Thank you for posting in the Community!

We reorganized editing controls so the ones you use most are faster to reach: your most common controls now live in a mini bar right above your selected shape, instead of a fixed toolbar at the top of the screen you'd have to look away from your work to use.

Here are a couple quick tips:

  • The mini bar also only shows controls relevant to what you've selected, so you're not scanning past options that don't apply.
  • You can drag that bar anywhere on your canvas.
  • The side panel to the right of your canvas (under the Share button) has those same controls, plus more advanced options, if you need them.

 

If you have any further questions or run into any issues, please let me know and I'd be happy to help!

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Zuzia S
Zuzia SAnswer
Lucid community team
September 4, 2026

​@Aleksander K Thank you for posting in the Community!

We reorganized editing controls so the ones you use most are faster to reach: your most common controls now live in a mini bar right above your selected shape, instead of a fixed toolbar at the top of the screen you'd have to look away from your work to use.

Here are a couple quick tips:

  • The mini bar also only shows controls relevant to what you've selected, so you're not scanning past options that don't apply.
  • You can drag that bar anywhere on your canvas.
  • The side panel to the right of your canvas (under the Share button) has those same controls, plus more advanced options, if you need them.

 

If you have any further questions or run into any issues, please let me know and I'd be happy to help!

September 4, 2026

Please bring back the option to choose between the previous top formatting toolbar and the new right-side panel.

I find the new right-side panel significantly less intuitive and less user-friendly than the previous top toolbar, especially when formatting text and shapes.

Is there currently any way to choose which layout or interface we want to use? If not, it would be great to have the option to switch between both views based on user preference.

Zuzia S
Lucid community team
September 7, 2026

​@Fernando Flores Thank you for sharing your feedback, we are sharing this with our product team. I can certainly understand what you’re saying here. We’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products.

Please make sure to upvote and comment the idea below:

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

 

October 5, 2026

Please just put this back.

You have no idea how much time this costs and how incredibly frustrating this is to use the product in current form. 

I pay for lucid to speed up my diagrams - and this is costing significant time. I have already googled looking for other options before finding this post. 

Ironically this comment editor (posting on this thread) does exactly what I need - a permanent place for common text formatting controls, etc. Its such a basic ask….
 

Zuzia S
Lucid community team
October 7, 2026

Hi ​@Mike_Salesforce_Lucid, thank you for chiming in and for sharing your experience. 

Please make sure to upvote and comment on the below idea to further support your feature request:

We truly appreciate you for taking the time to leave feedback!