All movments in Horizon happen on the grid. By holding Alt you get a finer grid (by a factor of 10).
You can change the size of the grid by changing the value in the numeric field on the top left of the window. Note that depending on a zoom level your grid may be resized by factors of two.
You can enter basic math operations into any numeric field in horizon, this makes it easy to divide a value by two, multiplying something by a certain factor, or adding a value to a coordinate to create a fixed offset. For more details, see :doc:`Numeric entries<entries>`.
You can change the appearance of the grids and the cursor in the Preferences:
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