Undo, redo, and the history panel – Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 User Manual
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Undo, redo, and the History panel
Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands
Using the History panel
Undo steps with the History panel
Replay steps with the History panel
Copy and paste steps between documents
Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands
To undo or redo actions on individual objects, or all objects within the current document, specify either object-level or document-level Undo and
Redo commands (Edit > Undo or Edit Redo). The default behavior is document-level Undo and Redo.
You cannot undo some actions when using object-level Undo. Among these are entering and exiting Edit mode; selecting, editing, and moving
library items; and creating, deleting, and moving scenes.
Note: (Flash Professional CC only) Object-level undo is deprecated and is unavailable with Flash Pro CC.
To reapply a step to the same object or to a different object, use the Repeat command. For example, if you move a shape named shape_A, select
Edit > Repeat to move the shape again, or select another shape, shape_B, and select Edit > Repeat to move the second shape by the same
amount.
By default, Flash Professional supports 100 levels of undo for the Undo menu command. Select the number of undo and redo levels, from 2 to
300, in Flash Preferences.
By default, when you undo a step by using Edit > Undo or the History panel, the file size of the document does not change, even if you delete an
item in the document. For example, if you import a video file into a document, and undo the import, the file size of the document still includes the
size of the video file. Any items that you delete from a document when performing an Undo command are preserved to in order to be able to
restore the items with a Redo command.
Using the History panel
The History panel (Window > Other Panels > History) shows a list of the steps you’ve performed in the active document since you created or
opened that document, up to a specified maximum number of steps. (The History panel doesn’t show steps you’ve performed in other documents.)
The slider in the History panel initially points to the last step that you performed.
To undo or redo individual steps or multiple steps at once, use the History panel. Apply steps from the History panel to the same object or to
a different object in the document. However, you cannot rearrange the order of steps in the History panel. The History panel is a record of
steps in the order in which they are performed.
Note: If you undo a step or a series of steps and then do something new in the document, you can no longer redo the steps in the History
panel; they disappear from the panel.
By default, Flash Professional supports 100 levels of undo for the History panel. Select the number of undo and redo levels, from 2 to 300, in
Flash Preferences.
To erase the history list for the current document, clear the History panel. After clearing the history list, you cannot undo the steps that are
cleared. Clearing the history list does not undo steps; it removes the record of those steps from the current document’s memory.
Closing a document clears its history. To use steps from a document after that document is closed, copy the steps with the Copy Steps command
or save the steps as a command.
Undo steps with the History panel
When you undo a step, the step is dimmed in the History panel.
To undo the last step performed, drag the History panel slider up one step in the list.
To undo multiple steps at once, drag the slider to point to any step, or click to the left of a step along the path of the slider. The slider scrolls
automatically to that step, undoing all subsequent steps as it scrolls.
Note: Scrolling to a step (and selecting the subsequent steps) is different from selecting an individual step. To scroll to a step, click to the left of
the step.
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