Enable CTRL + SHIFT + click to duplicate object and maintain alignment

Enable customer to duplicate items using the CTRL + drag functionality of PowerPoint. User can hold down CTRL, click and drag any object, thereby duplicating it. Additionally, PowerPoint allows users to SHIFT + drag to move objects while keeping in alignment. When combined, the CTRL + SHIFT + drag action is very powerful - enables very fast duplication and layout of the page with a single mouse click and motion.

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Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni, Official Rep, replied on September 25, 2009 05:46

Hi Mitchell, we have ALT+drag to duplicate, have you tried it? As for SHIFT to maintain alignment, I like the idea!

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Jenni Merrifield replied on October 07, 2009 21:23

Both SHIFT+drag and SHIFT+CTRL+drag (or ALT if you leave that as the key for "duplicate") should maintain existing horizontal alignment or vertical alignment of the selected control. The H or V alignment depending on whether the mouse first moved left-right or up-down.

Not having this functionality can be very frustrating as objects will often snap to another alignment if something else is near but not the same as their current alignment as they are moved.

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Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni, (Official Rep), commented on November 26, 2009 15:08

Hi Jenni, this is a good request, I'll add it near the top of the list.
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dominickreed replied on February 26, 2010 15:07

Can I add an additional request to this...

Having just started using Mockups, the thing that's driving me nuts is that using the ALT key to duplicate something has to be done *before* I've started to move it, whereas in other applications I can press the duplicating key afterwards and have it realise I don't want to move the item, but instead duplicate it.

So my frustration has been moving lots of objects around by mistake, undoing the move, and then re-attempting the duplication by pressing the ALT key first.

Does that make sense?

In Visio and other Microsoft apps they use CTRL as the duplicate key and it get's constrained in the X or Y plane by using the Shift key. I'm fine by using a different key as the duplicate key, but the lack of flexibility in when the ALT key gets pressed is driving me nuts!!

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Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni, (Official Rep), commented on March 09, 2010 09:18

Hi dominick, this is on our short-list of things to fix, hang in there!