diff --git a/crates/engine/src/shortcut_parity_tests.rs b/crates/engine/src/shortcut_parity_tests.rs
index 3165cb4f1..7d145db39 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/shortcut_parity_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/shortcut_parity_tests.rs
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static ROWS: &[Row] = &[
     doc(Arrange, "Add auto layout", &["Shift+A"], &[], Bound("layout.add"), ""),
     doc(Arrange, "Remove auto layout", &["Alt+Shift+A"], &[], Bound("layout.remove"), ""),
     doc(Arrange, "Suggest auto layout", &["Ctrl+Shift+A"], &["Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A"], Bound("layout.suggest"), "was unbound"),
-    doc(Arrange, "Edit padding on all sides (from right panel)", &["Cmd"], &[], Gesture("Edit padding on all sides"), "held while clicking a padding field: the value typed goes to every side"),
+    doc(Arrange, "Edit padding on all sides (from right panel)", &["Cmd"], &["Ctrl"], Gesture("Edit padding on all sides"), "held while clicking a padding field: the value typed goes to every side"),
     pin(Arrange, "distribute.horizontal", &["Ctrl+Alt+H"], &["Alt+Shift+H"]),
     pin(Arrange, "distribute.vertical", &["Ctrl+Alt+V"], &["Alt+Shift+V"]),
     pin(Arrange, "arrange.tidy", &["Ctrl+Alt+T"], &["Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T"]),
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs
index 2a32ffd13..08d919781 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs
@@ -352,11 +352,17 @@ fn number_field_impl(
     // The text the field would commit to no effect: what it showed when the edit began, or the
     // value the arrows last stepped it to.
     let kept_id = id.with("kept");
+    // Whether Cmd/Ctrl was held while the button was down on the field: a click's modifier is
+    // read on its press, so letting go of the key before the release still counts.
+    let cmd_press_id = id.with("cmdpress");
+    let cmd_held_before = ui.data(|d| d.get_temp::<bool>(cmd_press_id)).unwrap_or(false);
+    let (cmd_pressed, any_down) = ui.input(|i| (field_resp.is_pointer_button_down_on() && i.modifiers.command, i.pointer.any_down()));
+    ui.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(cmd_press_id, cmd_pressed || (cmd_held_before && any_down)));
     if started {
         editing = Some(if typed_now { String::new() } else { value.map(fmt_num).unwrap_or_default() });
         // Whether Cmd/Ctrl was held on the click that began the edit: a padding field then sets
-        // every side ([`edit_began_with_command`]).
-        let with_command = !typed_now && ui.input(|i| i.modifiers.command);
+        // every side ([`edit_began_with_command`]). The flag lives as long as the edit.
+        let with_command = !typed_now && (cmd_pressed || cmd_held_before || ui.input(|i| i.modifiers.command));
         ui.data_mut(|d| {
             d.insert_temp(editing_id, editing.clone().unwrap_or_default());
             d.insert_temp(kept_id, value.map(fmt_num).unwrap_or_default());
@@ -364,6 +370,9 @@ fn number_field_impl(
             d.insert_temp(id.with("cmdstart"), with_command);
         });
         ui.memory_mut(|m| m.request_focus(id.with("te")));
+    } else if editing.is_none() {
+        // No edit under way: an arrow step on the focused field is its own side's.
+        ui.data_mut(|d| d.remove::<bool>(id.with("cmdstart")));
     }
     match editing {
         Some(mut text) => {
@@ -418,7 +427,10 @@ fn number_field_impl(
                 // Enter, Tab or a click elsewhere commits what was typed (a field left as it was
                 // commits nothing: no undo step, and a rounded display isn't written back).
                 let kept: String = ui.data(|d| d.get_temp(kept_id)).unwrap_or_default();
-                if text != kept
+                // An edit begun with Cmd/Ctrl commits the value even retyped as it was: the other
+                // sides are to take it ([`edit_began_with_command`]).
+                let for_all = ui.data(|d| d.get_temp::<bool>(id.with("cmdstart"))).unwrap_or(false);
+                if (text != kept || for_all)
                     && let Some(e) = typed(&text)
                 {
                     out = Some(e);