KNOWLEDGEBASE - ARTICLE #1321

How to turn off automatic snapping.

When you move a text object in Prism 5 and later, it will automatically snap into alignment with bars on graphs, groups of bars, the center of the page, and other text objects. This almost always is a great feature, as it lets you quickly move text to an appropriate spot. But sometimes, you may find that the automatic snapping prevents you from fine-tuning a graph.

There are two ways to move an object without snapping:

  • If you just want to nudge the text object a tiny bit, select it, and then use the arrow keys on the keyboard. Each click will move the object one pixel.
  • If you want to move the object with the mouse without snapping, hold the ALT key while dragging. 

    Prism 6 Mac: Hold the command key down while dragging.  Prism 5 Mac: the Alt key is also called the Option key. Be sure to first start dragging and then hold down the ALT key. If you click the ALT key first, and then start dragging with Prism Mac, you will have created a duplicate copy of the object.


Keywords: align, line up, justify

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