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How can I undo a "save file" action that I just did?
So I just clicked on the "disk" icon and saved the latest edits in WORD. But
I really did not mean to do that. Say wnated to do a "save as" with new name. How do I undo the action? |
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How can I undo a "save file" action that I just did?
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:31:03 -0800, Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern
AFIS" Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern wrote: So I just clicked on the "disk" icon and saved the latest edits in WORD. But I really did not mean to do that. Say wnated to do a "save as" with new name. How do I undo the action? As long as the document is still open, you can use Undo to bring the document on the screen back to the condition before you started this session, and save that as a different file (for example, MyDocBeforeChanges.doc). Then use the My Computer program to rename the modified file, and finally rename the BeforeChanges copy back to the original name. If you've already closed the document, Undo is no longer available. In that case, let's hope you had the "Always make backup copy" option turned on in Tools Options Save; if it was turned on, the preceding version will be in a file named something like "Backup of MyDoc.wbk" in the same folder as the original. If neither of those methods is available, you're just unlucky. Make a copy and try to identify and remove the changes from it. For the future I strongly suggest you read http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How can I undo a "save file" action that I just did?
I guess I need to clarify. I have gone thru two dozen of edits to the
document. It does not look like the original doc at all, or it is quite different. The "undo" function is simply to help you go back one step if you have made a mistake. So yes there is undo for specific formating and typing stuff in WORD. But looks like no nndo for file action. Why? IF you have "ready to click and use" bottons, then you need to provide the undo action botton, like the "stop" botton in the browser. You think WORD2007 is quite advanced and something like this is a most logical fuctionality they add!? Anyways, looks like principal product shortcoming. Thanks for the prompt response. Ben "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:31:03 -0800, Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern AFIS" Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern wrote: So I just clicked on the "disk" icon and saved the latest edits in WORD. But I really did not mean to do that. Say wnated to do a "save as" with new name. How do I undo the action? As long as the document is still open, you can use Undo to bring the document on the screen back to the condition before you started this session, and save that as a different file (for example, MyDocBeforeChanges.doc). Then use the My Computer program to rename the modified file, and finally rename the BeforeChanges copy back to the original name. If you've already closed the document, Undo is no longer available. In that case, let's hope you had the "Always make backup copy" option turned on in Tools Options Save; if it was turned on, the preceding version will be in a file named something like "Backup of MyDoc.wbk" in the same folder as the original. If neither of those methods is available, you're just unlucky. Make a copy and try to identify and remove the changes from it. For the future I strongly suggest you read http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How can I undo a "save file" action that I just did?
No, although you can't Undo the save, you can Undo all the actions you have
taken since you opened the file. What I do in this case is usually Undo the entire list, resave under the original name, then Redo the whole list and Save As. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern AFIS"" ft.com wrote in message ... I guess I need to clarify. I have gone thru two dozen of edits to the document. It does not look like the original doc at all, or it is quite different. The "undo" function is simply to help you go back one step if you have made a mistake. So yes there is undo for specific formating and typing stuff in WORD. But looks like no nndo for file action. Why? IF you have "ready to click and use" bottons, then you need to provide the undo action botton, like the "stop" botton in the browser. You think WORD2007 is quite advanced and something like this is a most logical fuctionality they add!? Anyways, looks like principal product shortcoming. Thanks for the prompt response. Ben "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:31:03 -0800, Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern AFIS" Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern wrote: So I just clicked on the "disk" icon and saved the latest edits in WORD. But I really did not mean to do that. Say wnated to do a "save as" with new name. How do I undo the action? As long as the document is still open, you can use Undo to bring the document on the screen back to the condition before you started this session, and save that as a different file (for example, MyDocBeforeChanges.doc). Then use the My Computer program to rename the modified file, and finally rename the BeforeChanges copy back to the original name. If you've already closed the document, Undo is no longer available. In that case, let's hope you had the "Always make backup copy" option turned on in Tools Options Save; if it was turned on, the preceding version will be in a file named something like "Backup of MyDoc.wbk" in the same folder as the original. If neither of those methods is available, you're just unlucky. Make a copy and try to identify and remove the changes from it. For the future I strongly suggest you read http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How can I undo a "save file" action that I just did?
Note in order to use the Redo List you need to add it to the QAT from
"Commands not in the Ribbon". The default Redo command is actually the Redo Or Repeat command. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... No, although you can't Undo the save, you can Undo all the actions you have taken since you opened the file. What I do in this case is usually Undo the entire list, resave under the original name, then Redo the whole list and Save As. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern AFIS"" ft.com wrote in message ... I guess I need to clarify. I have gone thru two dozen of edits to the document. It does not look like the original doc at all, or it is quite different. The "undo" function is simply to help you go back one step if you have made a mistake. So yes there is undo for specific formating and typing stuff in WORD. But looks like no nndo for file action. Why? IF you have "ready to click and use" bottons, then you need to provide the undo action botton, like the "stop" botton in the browser. You think WORD2007 is quite advanced and something like this is a most logical fuctionality they add!? Anyways, looks like principal product shortcoming. Thanks for the prompt response. Ben "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:31:03 -0800, Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern AFIS" Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern wrote: So I just clicked on the "disk" icon and saved the latest edits in WORD. But I really did not mean to do that. Say wnated to do a "save as" with new name. How do I undo the action? As long as the document is still open, you can use Undo to bring the document on the screen back to the condition before you started this session, and save that as a different file (for example, MyDocBeforeChanges.doc). Then use the My Computer program to rename the modified file, and finally rename the BeforeChanges copy back to the original name. If you've already closed the document, Undo is no longer available. In that case, let's hope you had the "Always make backup copy" option turned on in Tools Options Save; if it was turned on, the preceding version will be in a file named something like "Backup of MyDoc.wbk" in the same folder as the original. If neither of those methods is available, you're just unlucky. Make a copy and try to identify and remove the changes from it. For the future I strongly suggest you read http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How can I undo a "save file" action that I just did?
Note that you can Undo lots of edits at once by clicking the tiny
triangle next to the "Undo" icon (curly counterclockwise arrow) in the main toolbar -- a menu drops down and you can scroll all the way down it (though apparently you can't skip around) and it helpfully(?) tells you how many changes you'll be undoing when you let go of your mouse button. On Jan 1, 3:08*pm, Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern AFIS" ft.com wrote: I guess I need to clarify. I have gone thru two dozen of edits to the document. It does not look like the original doc at all, or it is quite different. The "undo" function is simply to help you go back one step if you have made a mistake. So yes there is undo for specific formating and typing stuff in WORD. But looks like no nndo for file action. Why? IF you have "ready to click and use" bottons, then you need to provide the undo action botton, like the "stop" botton in the browser. You think WORD2007 is quite advanced and something like this is a most logical fuctionality they add!? Anyways, looks like principal product shortcoming. Thanks for the prompt response. Ben "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:31:03 -0800, Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern AFIS" Ben Bavarian, "Father of Modern wrote: So I just clicked on the "disk" icon and saved the latest edits in WORD.. But I really did not mean to do that. Say wnated to do a "save as" with new name. How do I undo the action? As long as the document is still open, you can use Undo to bring the document on the screen back to the condition before you started this session, and save that as a *different file (for example, MyDocBeforeChanges.doc). Then use the My Computer program to rename the modified file, and finally rename the BeforeChanges copy back to the original name. If you've already closed the document, Undo is no longer available. In that case, let's hope you had the "Always make backup copy" option turned on in Tools Options Save; if it was turned on, the preceding version will be in a file named something like "Backup of MyDoc.wbk" in the same folder as the original. If neither of those methods is available, you're just unlucky. Make a copy and try to identify and remove the changes from it. For the future I strongly suggest you read http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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