ctrl+z

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christykmsc5

I accidentally pressed ctrl+z. My whole document disappeared leaving me with
a blue screen in Word, and I had not saved it yet. Can I get it back?
 
R

Robert

I accidentally pressed ctrl+z. My whole document disappeared leaving me with
a blue screen in Word, and I had not saved it yet. Can I get it back?
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If you havenÿt closed the document, you can try pressing ´Ctrl+Y¡.
 
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Tony Jollans

Ctrl+Z, by default, undoes a single change. If your whole document
disappeared when undoing a single change, it must have been created with a
single change - a Paste, perhaps - in which case you haven't lost much work.

However, I don't know what you mean when you say you were left with a blue
screen - do you mean you had no documents left open? I don't believe thats
possible from a default Ctrl+Z action. Perhaps you could give more detail?
 
G

grammatim

A finger slipped, and he did Ctrl-AZ?

Ctrl+Z, by default, undoes a single change. If your whole document
disappeared when undoing a single change, it must have been created with a
single change - a Paste, perhaps - in which case you haven't lost much work.

However, I don't know what you mean when you say you were left with a blue
screen - do you mean you had no documents left open? I don't believe thats
possible from a default Ctrl+Z action. Perhaps you could give more detail?

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Enjoy,
Tony

 www.WordArticles.com
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christykmsc5

Thank you to everyone for answering my question. What does ctrl +AZ do? I
had closed the document, but word kept running. I have since shut it down, I
tried so many different things last night to find it, but I know nothing
about computers...I'm hopeless.
Thanks again everyone.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Check the Undo list to see what you actually did do. If you had used Ctrl+A,
Z, you would have selected the entire document and replaced it with the
letter z. If so, then Ctrl+Z would Undo that action.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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