Troubleshooting
[Ctrl]+[Z] (Undo) and [Ctrl]+[Y] (Redo) have already been covered. Just note that there is an arrow that opens a history or last actions if you want to go back and forth a bunch of steps.
What if earlier on you had written something and later realise that you don’t want to lost that particular info? here’s a crafty trick:
- Use Undo to navigate back.
- Copy your target (consider pasting it to clipboard, another file)
- Redo all the way back to restore your document to where you just were
- Paste in the saved target.
Things that you can’t Undo
- Any auto-correct action (such as a straight quote being converted to a curly apostrophe or Word auto-correcting a double-capital).
- Any series of actions you perform within a dialog box (such as altering multiple elements via the Font dialog).
Clear Formatting
The Clear Formatting command will also remove direct formatting – anything you’ve applied with buttons or dialog box options.
- To undo character formatting or a character style, select the text you want to change, and then click Clear Formatting.
- To undo paragraph formatting or a paragraph style, click in the paragraph or select the whole thing (you don’t need to include the paragraph mark), and click Clear Formatting.
Caution: If you’ve applied a direct paragraph format, such as center alignment, to a paragraph, and you then select the whole paragraph to undo a character format that you’ve also applied to the whole paragraph, such as bold, Clear Formatting will undo the direct paragraph formatting as well as the character formatting.
Clear formatting selectively
- To undo just the character formatting without undoing the direct paragraph formatting, select the whole paragraph and press [CTRL]+[SPACEBAR].
- To undo just the direct paragraph formatting, click in or select the whole paragraph and press [CTRL]+[ Q ].
- To (re)apply Normal style, use [Shift]+[CTRL]+[N].
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