set number of times for undo or redo

[Guest]

How do I change the number of times I can undo or redo?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can't. The number of Redos is limited by the number of actions since the
last Undo (sort of); the number of Undos is limited only by available HD
space.

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[Jezebel]

You can clear the list of undo/redo actions through VBA:

ActiveDocument.UndoClear

But that's the only control there is over the undo mechanism.

 

[Alex]

Hi Suzanne

Quick question, you can change the number of undo levels
in Excel by changing the registry, won't a similar trick
work for Word as well.

regards
Alex

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You can use

ActiveDocument.UndoClear

in a macro to clear the Undo stack.

and

ActiveDocument.Undo(n)

to under the last n changes to the document.

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[Dayo Mitchell]

You can use

ActiveDocument.UndoClear

in a macro to clear the Undo stack.

and

ActiveDocument.Undo(n)

to under the last n changes to the document.

So, Doug, if I did about 20 different edits, and then realized I wanted to
keep most of them, but not the third edit I did, are you saying I could
clear 17 undo changes, then undo edit number 3, and have the doc I wanted?

Dayo

 

[Jezebel]

No. It's a simple stack. Undo(17) is equivalent to clicking Undo 17 times.
UndoClear simply throws away the entire list of undo instructions.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Oh, bummer, thought I had learned a new trick. Didn't read carefully
enough.

Thanks much,
Dayo

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's a common trap. When Word first introduced the Undo list, a frequently
seen "insider tip" (Word Processing Tips editor George Campbell published
this one in PCWorld, and I called him on it) was that you could display the
list, select the specific action you wanted to Undo, and click on it.
Unfortunately, this was never true: Word just undoes back to the action you
click on.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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