# Magnifying Spotlight

**URL:** <https://talk.atomisystems.com/t/magnifying-spotlight/9380>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://talk.atomisystems.com/t/magnifying-spotlight/9380 "2025-02-25T12:06:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![PaulCrossley](https://talk.atomisystems.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@PaulCrossley](https://talk.atomisystems.com/u/PaulCrossley)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://talk.atomisystems.com/t/magnifying-spotlight/9380/1 "2025-02-25T12:06:52Z")

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I quite often have small areas of text or diagrams that I would like to magnify without zooming in with the zoom and pan.

I propose a spotlight type tool that will magnify just the area under the spotlight allowing the context of the zoomed area to be kept.

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**Author:** ![PhuongThuy\_Le](https://talk.atomisystems.com/user_avatar/talk.atomisystems.com/phuongthuy_le/32/6090_2.png) [@PhuongThuy\_Le](https://talk.atomisystems.com/u/PhuongThuy_Le)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://talk.atomisystems.com/t/magnifying-spotlight/9380/2 "2025-02-26T01:39:18Z")

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Good morning,

Thank you for your request.  
We’ll note it down and consider implementing it if there are more user requests.

You can now use the **Object State** feature to achieve your goal.  
Add the **On hover** event and **Change Object State** action to the target object.  
Please refer to this tutorial for more details:

> **[How to Change States of Objects in ActivePresenter 9](https://atomisystems.com/tutorials/ap9/change-states-of-objects-activepresenter-9/)**
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> See how the object States feature in ActivePresenter 9 helps change the appearance of an object in response to user interaction.

BR,  
Thuy