Arrow keys "deletes" elements in Illustrator

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November 24, 2023
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I have a weird bug... I wanted to slighlty nudge some elements in a composition and was suprised when it deleted the elements I was trying to move.

So here's the behavior I observed :

When I press the right or up arrow key the selected layer disapear but it doesn't delete. I can still see it in the layer panel. And the left and down arrow brings it back...

I attached a screen capture of the behavior.

Enregistrement_d’écran,_le_2023-11-24_à_14-55-43.zip

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Correct answer Xavier5FA4

All right! I solved my problem! Turns out it wasn't deleting my shapes but it was moving them! Somehow, my keyboard increments that can be found in Illustrator > Preferences > General > Keyboard Increment was way way up. Like 9999999px. So I turn it down and problem solve!

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Xavier5FA4AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

All right! I solved my problem! Turns out it wasn't deleting my shapes but it was moving them! Somehow, my keyboard increments that can be found in Illustrator > Preferences > General > Keyboard Increment was way way up. Like 9999999px. So I turn it down and problem solve!

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

I seem to remember a strange bug that affects the Keyboard Increment in the application preferences. Some specific actions (probably keyboard shortcuts) caused it, but at the moment I cannot reproduce it. I forgot the combination that triggers the behaviour.