Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 75)

Creating Documents Writing and Editing 55
Recovering from Mistakes
Undo an action
▶ Choose Undo from the Edit menu.
You can undo an unlimited number of actions!
Redo an action
▶ Choose Redo from the Edit menu.
Not only can you undo your previous actions, you can also redo them. Redo—the opposite of Undo
—(believe it or not) undoes your undo. It puts your commands back into effect. You can continue
redoing all the commands in the undo list until it is empty. Nisus Writer Express remembers the
Redo list as long as you do not make any editing changes to your text. You can Undo and Redo any
number of times, but as soon as you resume editing your document, Nisus Writer Express clears
the Redo list. The Undo list continues to accumulate the new commands you make.
To help you visualize these Undo and Redo lists, imagine that the process of preparing your
document is like a walk across an open field with many branching paths. As illustrated in Figure
34, you can take any path you like. Having gone a certain distance along the path ABCD in the
figure, you change your mind and want to go back to the point B (Undo Bold) which you passed.
That is what multiple undos allow you to do.
Undo
Typing
Undo
Bold
Undo Margin
Change
Undo
Delete
Undo
Capitalize
Undo
Paragraph Ruler
A B
C
D
E
F
Figure 34
The Undo and Redo paths
Imagine now that you have undone everything from changing the margin to bolding your selection,
you find that you have gone back too far and want to retrace your original path to redo the Bold and
redo the Delete (to point C having redone part of the original path) and start on the new path CEF
(by making changes to your document). Immediately, Nisus Writer Express forgets the rest of the
original path CD (including the expanding of the abbreviation). Nisus Writer Express clears the Redo
list before the path to E begins. The new undo list, however, can get you back along any portion of
the path ABCDF.