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September 18, 2017
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Using CTRL+Space will not zoom in/out

  • September 18, 2017
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At some point, I lost the ability to zoom in/out using the shortcut CTRL+Space Bar in InDesign.  Is there a particular setting that when activated, disables this short cut?  I have no issues with the shortcut CMD+Space on my mac but it completely stopped working on my PC. 

What can I do to correct this?

Note - I am using the most current version of InDesign CC on both my PC and Mac.

    Correct answer winterm

    AFAIK, it always was this way in ID (on PC, at least): Ctrl+Space+draw a selection rectangle to Zoom in, or Ctrl+Alt+Space+draw rectangle to Zoom out (smaller rectangle leads to smaller Zoom Level percents).

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    acuarela301598550mkb
    New Participant
    May 30, 2023

    In my case, the Windows PowerToys was the software that block this usefull short cut. Turn it off and test it.

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      ALAA26602049t57s
      New Participant
      October 14, 2022

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      ALAA26602049t57s
      New Participant
      October 14, 2022

      go to perfernces and go to performance and select animeated zoom

       
       

       

       

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      Στέργιος24377286pli4
      New Participant
      May 9, 2022

      Select the Zoom tool.

      On the ribbon above make sure you have ticked the Scrubby Zoom box.

       

       

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      OhadOron
      New Participant
      June 23, 2021

      I was looking for a solution and somehow just messed around with stuff and managed to solve it myself

       

      I went into outline mode(Ctrl+Y) and back out and it seemed to fix it, but this was in illustrator so not sure if it works in InDesign

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      Laubender
      Braniac
      June 2, 2021

      Hi together,

      if you have a mouse wheel you could hold the Alt key plus the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

      That's the easiest method I see. Also with Adobe Illustrator or PhotoShop.

      ( I'm on Windows 10, but this should also work on Mac OS. )

       

      Regards,
      Uwe Laubender

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        Daniel Goschke
        Daniel Goschke
        New Participant
        May 10, 2020

        Hey Guys,

        i was getting crazy about that problem. Now i solved it.

        With "ctrl + E" you can switch the Viewmode between the regular Preview and the "GPU-Preview".

        In the GPU.Preview you can zoom with control+spacebar, in the normal you get the rectangle to define the zoom-area.

         

        Best regards!

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          ReiSMieR
          New Participant
          June 2, 2021

          This! This works.

           

          Thanks

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          joea72372426
          New Participant
          November 13, 2019

          I had this issue too when my Ctrl + Spacebar zoom shortcut stopped working. I fixed it just by going to the View menu & selecting GPU Preview. Hope this helps. 

            John Mensinger
            John Mensinger
            Inspiring
            November 13, 2019

             

            "I fixed it just by going to the View menu & selecting GPU Preview."

             

            Not in InDesign on a Windows machine you didn't.

              cineartist1
              cineartist1
              New Participant
              February 14, 2019

              you can likely fix this issue by doing the following:

              Edit/Preferences

              Performance/

              Advanced tab in GPU section

              Set it to "Basic" and then exit and restart Photoshop.

              It should come back.

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                Alexandreffaria
                New Participant
                September 27, 2019
                Signed in just to like this post. This should be at the top. The "Correct Answer" completely misses the point.
                  Eric Dumas
                  Eric Dumas
                  Braniac
                  September 21, 2017

                  Hi,

                  Scrubby zoom is only in illustrator.

                  You can use the Menu>Keyboard shortcuts to assign zoom (usually key Z) to your preferred shortcut

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                  OtoharmonicsAuthor
                  Participating Frequently
                  September 22, 2017

                  Perhaps I'm not being clear--I have heard to the term "scrubby zoom" used to define the ability to zoom in and out by moving the cursor left or right or up and down while pressing a series of shortcut keys. The shortcut keys used are Ctrl+Space on a PC and Cmd+Space on a mac. Below are examples of the results  using Photoshop and Illustrator

                  Photoshop (Ctrl +Space)

                  Illustrator (Ctrl +Space)

                  At a point in time, InDesign did the same thing using Ctrl+Space, but currently, it does not.  Instead it will only zoom in after defining an area of interest/drawing a zoom region box. Below is what happens:

                  InDesign (Ctrl+Space)

                  When I use a Mac, InDesign will perform identical the the above Photoshop and Illustrator examples. But for some reason, on my PC is doesn't work, again, I can only zoom in after defining an area of interest. 

                  If you have a solution please let me know.  Thanks!

                    winterm
                    wintermCorrect answer
                    Braniac
                    September 22, 2017

                    AFAIK, it always was this way in ID (on PC, at least): Ctrl+Space+draw a selection rectangle to Zoom in, or Ctrl+Alt+Space+draw rectangle to Zoom out (smaller rectangle leads to smaller Zoom Level percents).

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