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Using Undo and Redo

Using Undo and Redo

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Using Undo and Redo

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- [Instructor] We all make mistakes, and as we work with Excel, sometimes we make a mistake. Sometimes it's drastic, we've deleted a lot of data we didn't mean to. And just a simple little example here. I'm highlighting by holding down the left mouse button, these entries here. Maybe I'm about to make them bold, but then it occurs to me I might want a whole new row above this to separate the months from this. And on my keyboard, insert and delete are right next to each other. I mean to press insert, I'm not even sure if that's the key I want, but maybe I mean to press insert, I hit delete instead, the data's gone. Obviously I don't want to be retyping all those. We can undo our last action with a great keystroke shortcut, Control + Z. And by the way, when you do see keystroke shortcuts listed, sometimes you'll see them at websites or on printed page. They're often written this way and this does not mean to use the plus…

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