Zoom, fit and find someone
Find your way around a large family by zooming, fitting everyone into view, centring on the index person or searching by name.
Procedure
- 1
Hold Ctrl and scroll, or pinch on a trackpad, to zoom in or out.
- 2
Drag an empty part of the canvas to move the view.
- 3
Press 0, or click Fit everyone in the bottom strip, to bring the whole family into view.
- 4
Press 1, or click Focus person in the bottom strip, to centre the view on the index person.
- 5
Press / and type part of a name. A list of matching people opens under the search box.
- 6
Press ↵ Enter, or click a name in the list, to select that person and bring the person into view.
- 7
To give the canvas the whole window, click the full-screen button in the top bar.
Click the zoom percentage in the bottom strip to return to 100%. In full screen, the scroll wheel zooms without Ctrl.
Keyboard shortcuts
- Ctrlscroll
- Zoom in or out around the pointer.
- =
- Zoom in. The plus key has the same effect.
- -
- Zoom out.
- 0
- Fit the whole family in view.
- 1
- Centre the view on the index person.
- /
- Open the search box to find a person.
- CtrlF
- Open the search box to find a person.
- Space
- Hold the space bar and drag to move the view.
- Esc
- Leave full screen when no panel is open and nothing is selected.
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