On further investigation, I think it relates to the setting in the Keyboard
control panel, at least in Vista (all updates and SP's applied) -- if that's
set to the minimum delay between keypresses, it changes how Undo works in
Word. It does not change how Undo works in Outlook, Live Mail, or any other
application.
I think this qualifies as a bug in Word 2007, if others can reproduce it.
Just go to Start | Control Panel | Keyboard | Speed tab, and set the Repeat
delay all the way to Short (I also happen to have the Repeat rate all the
way to Fast, but I don't think that's related). Then in word, type a few
words. Then hit undo. It will undo a character at a time.
If you then change the Repeat delay to anything longer that Short, Word will
work as expected.
Again, this problem seems limited to Word, even the other Office 2007
applications don't have this problem. At the very least, it's inconsistent.
- Colin
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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That is not the way that undo works in 2007 here.
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"WebColin70" wrote in message
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I posted a similar question about a week ago, but no one answered.
In Word 2007, after typing new or replacement text, Undo (whether by the
button in the Quick Access bar, Ctrl-Z, or Alt-Backspace) always just
removes 1 character at a time, which I find too slow for reverting text.
Is there a way to change this so Undo removes a word or other larger
block at a time instead of a character at a time? That's how it works in
the Outlook 2007 e-mail editor (and Live Mail for posting to this
newsgroup) and I swear that's how it always worked in previous versions
of Word, unless I paused for a long time between each character I typed.
Am I right that this is new behavior in Word 2007?
Thanks,
Colin