The Wonderful "Ctrl +Z"

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The Wonderful "Ctrl +Z"

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Frequently when typing a post I may actually delete part of some else's quote when posting, or delete my own post on accident, or what to back up/ take a mulligan.



On this board, and in almost all windows programs you can hit Ctrl+Z and "undo" whatever you just did. It is great for posting here, working in Word or Excel, Photoshop, etc. You can hit it multiple times to back up multiple steps.



This may be one of those things that everyone already knows...but I have been surprised how many don't!
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Ctrl-Z is a lifesaver! I can't even count how many times it has saved my bacon when I've accidentally deleted something, or clicked the wrong thing and gotten some weird format setting for my document.
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If you use Firefox, there is an Undo option in the Edit menu that does the same.
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FYI! And just in case you are on a Mac computer it's "command + z" Mac has replaced any CTRL key combinations with the command key.
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if only I could find the "Ctrl" key on my iPhone...
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Thanks, that's something I did not know. I wonder if there's anything else I don't know? :headscratch
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I was showing a co-worker how to change the font of part of a document in Word and she highlighted and deleted the whole thing, she has a tendency to jump ahead and is very quick on the trigger. Luckily, before she had a chance to do more than swear and run the cursor up to <file<close>> I was able to stop her. While I tried to explain what "we" were about to do, she was starting to berate me, herself, and Word, not necessarily in that order, and was mystified when I told her that all she had to do was get the cursor down out of the menu bar and into the document and press <CTRL-Z> and all would be right with the world.

She was amazed.

I didn't bother to tell her that since she was working from an existing document, when she closed it she would be given the option to save or discard her changes, and if she discarded them, the original would remain unaffected.

Now she happily uses <CTRL-Z> in all sorts of programs.
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