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Or there was 10x planned but removed from paint, and they removed the icon but not the code so that small area is the iconless button.

[...] Vía: How to: Find the Hidden 10x Zoom in MS Paint (TechEBlog)u [...]

1) If you zoom in X8 and press ctrl+g it turns on a grid. Useful for fine touch ups. 2) If you hold shift wile drawing a line, it draws it perfectly straight. You can also use this feature to draw 45 degree angles, just lift the mouse cursor up more as you draw the line. 3) If you hold shift while drawing a circle/square it makes a perfect circle/square 4) If you select something with the select tool, then turn on transparency (below the zoom option) then hold down shift (do this before even clicking the object to move it. And then move it, it leave a trail of what you were moving behind (almost no use, but fun to do, this feature is used to make a custom "brush") 5) When you press the zoom icon, it brings up the zoom amounts, click 1 pixel below the X8 and it zooms in x10! (this can be hard to do, but very VERY rewarding when working on fine pixel art) 6) Pressing the right mouse button while drawing will draw with the color assigned to the right mouse button (to select a right mouse colour: right click on a color) 7) If you select something, then press and hole ctrl and move it, it clones it with out having to copy and paste 8) Turning on transparency will make the color that is assigned to the right mouse disappear when moving something with the select tool. 9) "Right clicking with the eraser: Turns all pixels that you hover over with the selected left color into the selected right colour. Useful for recoloring. " - HellShade 10) Wile drawing with anytool, if you decide you dont like what you have created, and have not let go of the left mouse button, press the right mouse button and it will delet it, with out using up one of the Undo's. 11) When zoomed in, to see a zoomed out version of what your working on, go to view> zoom> show thumbnail Great to see what it looks like zoomed out, without having to zoom out.