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16 March 2023

Canvas Everything Skills Articles

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Expanding your Canvas window using the ‘Waffle’ corner

Learn how to expand or condense your workspace in Canvas

There are various ways to enlarge the working space or window you are using in Canvas, such as clicking and dragging from the left or right sides of the Canvas window, and also dragging from the bottom of the window. There is another way that affords a little more control over the window resizing, that is using the ‘Waffle’ corner. 

What does it look like? And how is it used? 

If you look at use Canvas page window while in Edit mode, you will notice at the bottom right corner a collection of dots in two rows. Those dots are called a waffle corner, you can pull that down to make your workable window bigger or smaller with a great deal of control. 

  1. Click and drag on the waffle image to change the size of your window.  

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