Five years. Five years it took me to discover that Bubble has a bunch of hotkeys that I’ve never used 
Leaving this here as a tip in case anyone’s as slow as me to pick this up 
efficient Bubbling, here I come!
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Thank you!
I picked up the Ctrl + E for centring from a Bubble webinar a couple of months back and wondered if there were more.
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I find the CMD-click one to be the most useful, personally…
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Wow, this is amazing! I print it asap 
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Funny, I saw that particular one and went “I could’ve used this 1,000,000 times”… Same boat 
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I am lazy to reconfigure Windows to actually be able to use this shortcut with Bubble. When I try to use the equivalent key in Windows … the smart Windows menu pops up…
Do not get me wrong … I think it is great and very needed! … grrrr I am going to find a way to change this in my Win10 settings …
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I just started out with Bubble and I am absolutely surprised that a program that has such richness im functionality offers so little keyboard shortcuts. I am doing a course and see the teacher do everything by mouse. On my Mac I do everything with shortcuts, from launhing apps to basically all other things - so I am pretty shocked to see the amount of mouse action needed to navigate on bubble.
BTW - there is a Chrome plugin from ZeroQode that offers way more shortcuts -his is where it gets really functional.
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Awesome! Thanks forsharingthe hotkeys with us @petter, and making it a downloadable. Printed out, it now sits on the wall in front me, above my machine.
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@peter.grabec I’m glad my ignorance could be of some help 
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On a serious note, yeas, I kind of agree! You can suggest it in the Bubble idea board, and maybe they’ll include some more shortcuts in an upcoming hackathon.
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Yeah thanks for sharing! Selecting the parent, and auto centering are 
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@petter you just increased my productivity by 20%.
Thank you 
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Command-Click is a huge time saver…thanks @petter
Command-Drag (from anywhere but the corners) creates a copy of the element…very useful too.
Pasting the list of keyboard shortcuts from the bubble.io editor for better visibility and search engine indexing. These keyboard shortcuts are likely to be a very valuable timesaving tool for people in this forum. 
I also wanted to include a handy keyboard shortcut reference app I built for myself. This will create a slim popup that you can ‘dock’ to the right of your editor while learning the keys.
App: Keyboard Shortcut Quick Reference Sheet
Ctrl+P
Preview your app, equivalent to clicking on PREVIEW
Ctrl+T
Switch between the Design, Workflow and Data tabs
CMD + Click
Select the element under the current element
CMD + Drag
Resize the current element symetrically
Shift + Drag
Resize and keep proportions constant
Ctrl+C
Copy current element, action or event
Ctrl+V
Paste current element, action or event
Ctrl+X
Cut current element, action or event
Ctrl+Shift+C
Copy current element’s formatting
Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste formatting to current element
Ctrl+D
Duplicate current element
Ctrl+K
Show/Edit workflow for the current element
Ctrl+A
Select all elements on the page
Ctrl+G
Group the selected elements and move them in a new group
Ctrl+E
Center current element relatively to the parent
Ctrl+B
Turn this text element bold
Ctrl+I
Turn this text element italic
Ctrl+U
Turn this text element underlined
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Where do I request more keyboard shortcuts? Every prototyper uses T for text element, R for Rectangle. These are no brainers.
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Having recently switched from mac to windows I feel you!
But as far as I can tell the WinKey + click shortcut also works on Windows. It does open the Windows menu when you release the key but a quick press again on the same key and it’s like it was never there
I think more hotkeys would be an enormous productivity booster. Ideally you could even create them yourself, but this might be more tricky than it seems.
But: is there a way to group elements in a row/column through a shortcut (or simply toggle between row & column)? That would be an enormous time saver.
-Hold shift and click on your elements.
-Right click and hover over “group elements in”
-Select either row or column.