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Using Undo and Redo

Using Undo and Redo - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Using Undo and Redo

We all make mistakes from time-to-time and of course working with Excel is no exception. Let's imagine maybe we're going to make a serious mistake here. We want to get rid of these numbers and maybe we've just got row 2 selected and aren't thinking so clearly. Cell A, too, might look like it's not part of the mix here. So, you might go to Delete here, maybe you're exploring the commands, you're not familiar with how they work, you happen to click this and you realize that did a lot more than you wanted it to do. So, you'd like to reconsider all of that. In the Quick Access Toolbar--unless you've removed the button and I strongly suggest that you probably didn't and hope you didn't-- the Undo button is right here and it's followed by the word representing what you last did, the last action you took--in this case "Delete". Recognize also the keystroke shortcut for undo, Ctrl+Z. So, we're going to press this Undo button and bring back the row that we destroyed there by mistake. Now, not…

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