Canva Shortcuts To Help You Make Your Visual Content Faster

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 arrow key once for the direction you need to move 1 pixel at a time.

• Moving elements 10 pixels: shift + arrow key pointing in the direction you need.

• Deselect element: esc key

Text Shortcuts

• Add text to the graphic: Click the area to add text and press T key

• 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 + plus or - 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.