UNDO
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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
One of the greatest creations in the computing world was the
"undo" button. Shaped like a left curving arrow, it is found on the
main tool bar in most Microsoft products or you can hit "Ctrl" &
"Z" on your keyboard as well.
It undoes your last action. That means when you've unknowingly clicked your
mouse on a different part of the page and type over a whole lot of work, you
can undo it.
If you have formatted everything slime green and hate it, you can undo.
Neat huh! Some actions can't be undone, but most will tell you before you do
them that this is the case. It is normally deleting large blocks of text or
something similar.
The advantage of using the toolbar is that you can undo a whole series of
actions at once, like you've added a table, typed some some in it, moved it
around, and then decided to do a graph instead. You can delete everything back
to creating the table with two button clicks. Just hit the little down arrow
next to the undo button and scroll down the list until you've covered
everything you want to undo. Then click again.
There is a redo key, but the only real use I have found for this is to
click backwards and forwards while formatting, sort of like holding up
swatches.
Cheap Hint.
There is a site that gives some great Office Tips. http://features.yahoo.com/dailytips/microsoftword/20020502.html
This current one gives you ALL the tips for selecting text in a hurry. For
instance, try clicking in the left margin to select and entire line of text.
Much faster. Then you can format, move text around or delete it entirely, with
precision.
