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Undoing and redoing actions

Undoing and redoing actions - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Undoing and redoing actions

You may or may not know this, but the undo command in Microsoft Word is actually the fourth most used command overall. It comes just after paste, save, copy, and just before bold. So we're going to take look at undo and redo now, including the history list, and analyze the results using our Style Guide document we've been working with throughout this chapter. If you need to get caught up, go to the Chapter2 folder of the Exercise Files, and open up Style Guide4, and you'll see what I see. Here we are on the first page, and we're going to make a mistake on purpose. We're going to take out the ing after Branding. So we'll click after that g, hit Backspace once, twice, three times. So, you would think now if we want to get those back we would have to Undo three times. Well, undo can be activated from the quick access toolbar, or from the keyboard using Ctrl+Z. I'm going to click the Undo button once, and look what happens: all three characters come back, so Word does a pretty good job at…

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