Proportional Scaling

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September 25, 2017
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Up until 2 weeks ago I was able to proportionally scale art and images by shift, dragging on the diagonal brown corner box. Suddenly, when I try to do that now, it will scale but it's not a constrained proportional scale. The image will proportionally scale if I type it in in the upper menu bar. I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling InDesign, but get the same result. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong??

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Correct answer stachiab26900978

Barb you solved it! I turned off my virus protection (Webroot) restarted the computer and now the shift key and proportional scaling is all back to normal.Thank you soooo much!

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Is the Shift key working correctly elsewhere in InDesign? For example, when drawing a rectangle, does the Shift key force a square?

We've been seeing other applications interfere with the modifier keys in InDesign. (Broswers, browser extensions, and anti-virus apps to name a few.) To see if that is it, reboot and only open InDesign. Consider the applications that auto-load as well.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Barb you solved it! I turned off my virus protection (Webroot) restarted the computer and now the shift key and proportional scaling is all back to normal.Thank you soooo much!

Barb Binder

Community Expert

That's great. I'm so glad I could help.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

winterm

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For proportional scale of placed items you need to use Ctrl(Cmd)+Shift+drag. Shift+drag will proportionally crop them. Works a bit differently on a native InDesign objects, though. Shift+drag, I mean.

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