Tech Tip Tuesday: How Do You Do? I Mean Undo?

Ever make a mistake? Yeah me neither … NOT! Don't you sometimes wish you could just click a button real quick and undo what you just did? Well guess what. You can! At least when it comes to Microsoft Office anyways. 🙂  There's a simple little command that I actually use very often called “Undo”. And just in case you Undo something you really wanted to do but don't realize until you Undid, there's a “Redo” for you too. Sounds like a Dr. Seuss book, huh?

So let's say you're typing along in a new email and accidentally misspell a word. It's pretty easy to simply backspace a few times and retype it. Right? But what if you just cut and pasted a whole paragraph or maybe just applied a font format you decide you don't like. All you have to do is “Undo”. You don't have to select or highlight anything. Clicking the “Undo” button reverses the last action you made no matter what it was. And it works more than once. You can actually click it up to 100 times. And once you've clicked the Undo , a Redo   appears. Or if you really like what you did and want to do it again and again you can click Repeat  . You can access these commands via several options in any Microsoft Office product.  The keyboard commands are Ctrl+Z to Undo and Ctrl+Y to Redo and Repeat. Otherwise you can find them in the menu bars depending on your version of Office. I'll leave a couple of examples below. Happy editing.

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