Waveform graph plot legend in labview 8.5 won't respond to arrow keys?

I heard labview 8.5 fixes most of the problems that plague 8.2, so I recently installed it to try it out and see if it is worth the effort of another upgrade. Messing around today, I found an issue that wasn't related to the installer itself.
The plot legend on a waveform graph doesn't appear to respond to arrow keys for precise placement. It doesn't matter whether auto-size plot legend is turned on or off. When I want to place a plot legend very precisely, just like with any other labview control I like to use the arrow keys to get things perfectly aligned. I want to make the plot legend perfectly in the corner of the graph but its very hard to get it placed right with just the mouse. In labview 8.5 it seems like plot legends no longer respond to arrow keys.
Can anyone confirm this or know of a way to precisely place the plot legend in labview 8.5?
-Devin
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Ben,
I checked the snap to grid hypothesis. Even when activated the arrow keys still allow an accurate positionning of the objects at pixel level.
That's so nice that I changed my setup. I now have a reasonnably large spaced grid (50 pixels) with an invisible grid (contrast adjusted to zero). That should make object positionning and dimensionning much faster than before.
Chilly Charly (aka CC)
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