Pathagoras Tip of the Week

Editing Tips:  Word's 'Undo' ('Ctrl-Z') function.

    Mistakes, typos, wrong clauses, etc. come with the territory of document assembly.

    Being totally based in Microsoft Word, with Pathagoras you always have access to all of the editing tools that Microsoft offers. This includes tools that help you to correct mistakes.

    As you are assembling and editing a document for a client or customer with Pathagoras, or editing a source document using any of Pathagoras' tools, you may (gasp) make a mistake. Not to worry: the 'undo' function is always available.

    So, if you have inserted a document from a DropDown List and decide you don't really want it, click the 'undo' button (or its shortcut equivalent 'Ctrl-Z'). This will reverse the last 'transaction,' effectively erasing the inserted text.

    If you used the Instant Database to make replacements in your document and see that you misspelled a value, press Undo (or 'Ctrl-Z') repeatedly until you get back to the pre-replacement state of your document. (As you are repeating the Undo's, you will also see, in reverse, the actual steps used by the program to make replacements.) Recall the Instant Database record, make the correction and re-replace with the correct data.

    There is a limit set by Word as to the number of steps you can undo. However, the limit is not a fixed number, and it typically is quite 'deep'. You may be pleasantly surprised as to how far back you can go. (To see the number of 'Undo's' that you can perform, click the down arrow immediately to the right of the Undo button. The available Undo's are shown there.)