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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 1065749" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>When you exit a document without saving the updates, a dialogue appears warning you that closing or quitting will result in loss of changes. Unfortunately what you've lost is not recoverable, and, as you've found, you're left with the document 'pre-changes'. And no, it's not in the Trash.</p><p></p><p>Undoing - in other words 'editing' is simple enough. It can take four forms:</p><p>1. Cmd-Z. The most basic, it will take away what you last did, but only to a limited extent, eg. a letter, a word, maybe a sentence. It will take out a paragraph, as long as you haven't used auto-save, but I think there's a time limit.</p><p>2. L-Click/drag. The most effective form of editing.</p><p>If you've typed as much as a paragraph, and don't like it, simple place the cursor at the start of the section, L-click, hold, and drag <strong>diagonally</strong> from L to R. Then press Delete. [You can also click/drag diagonally from R to L after placing the cursor at the end of the section.] Click/drag can be used for letters, words, sentences, paras, whole pages.</p><p>3. Shift/arrow. The 'safe' way of selecting passages of text. Place the cursor at the start of the section, hold Shift, and press the down arrow repeatedly until you reach the end. Then press Delete.</p><p>4. Cmd-A. The Big Blast of removing text. It can be used for a whole page of text, but you have to be very careful not to delete a whole document.</p><p></p><p>Note: Cmd-Z is a good safety feature. Suppose you've deleted a paragraph by mistake. <u>Before you do anything else</u>, press Cmd-Z and it will undo your last editing action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 1065749, member: 56231"] When you exit a document without saving the updates, a dialogue appears warning you that closing or quitting will result in loss of changes. Unfortunately what you've lost is not recoverable, and, as you've found, you're left with the document 'pre-changes'. And no, it's not in the Trash. Undoing - in other words 'editing' is simple enough. It can take four forms: 1. Cmd-Z. The most basic, it will take away what you last did, but only to a limited extent, eg. a letter, a word, maybe a sentence. It will take out a paragraph, as long as you haven't used auto-save, but I think there's a time limit. 2. L-Click/drag. The most effective form of editing. If you've typed as much as a paragraph, and don't like it, simple place the cursor at the start of the section, L-click, hold, and drag [B]diagonally[/B] from L to R. Then press Delete. [You can also click/drag diagonally from R to L after placing the cursor at the end of the section.] Click/drag can be used for letters, words, sentences, paras, whole pages. 3. Shift/arrow. The 'safe' way of selecting passages of text. Place the cursor at the start of the section, hold Shift, and press the down arrow repeatedly until you reach the end. Then press Delete. 4. Cmd-A. The Big Blast of removing text. It can be used for a whole page of text, but you have to be very careful not to delete a whole document. Note: Cmd-Z is a good safety feature. Suppose you've deleted a paragraph by mistake. [U]Before you do anything else[/U], press Cmd-Z and it will undo your last editing action. [/QUOTE]
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