Multiple Undo/Redo

Know the undo and redo commands in FrameMaker.

A Redo icon appears in the toolbar, next to the Undo icon . Click this button to redo the most recently undone action in the current document.

A Redo command also appears in the Edit menu and in context menus, under the Undo command, showing the most recent redoable command in the current document.

The Edit menu displays the last command as well as the last command that has been undone.

If no action is available for Undo or Redo in the current document, the corresponding menu options and toolbar buttons are unavailable (dimmed).

Choosing View > Undo History or pressing Ctrl+K opens the command Undo History pod, which allows you to undo or redo an action other than the most recent one, along with all of the subsequent actions.

See the document-level command history in FrameMaker.

FrameMaker maintains a history of undoable commands, so that you can select one or more recent commands to undo or redo.

The command history is available through the Edit menu and context menus. The command history is kept separately for each document, so undoing or redoing an operation in one document does not change the undo capability of another open document.

Cursor movement and object selection actions are not undoable, but when a previous state is restored, it includes the original cursor location and object selection state.

Commands that affect an external file (such as Spelling Checker commands that update the user dictionary) cannot be undone.

Know how to repeat last operation in FrameMaker.

FrameMaker features a powerful Repeat Last Operation feature that makes it easy for you to repeat the previous operation, when working on a FrameMaker document.

Repeat Last Operation can be performed on a document at the following locations:

• The current insertion point

• The current text selection

• The current object selection

To perform the Repeat operation, select Edit > Repeat [operation/object name] from the FrameMaker menu.

In addition, you can view the history buffer by selecting View > Undo History from the FrameMaker menu.

Click once on an entry in the buffer to perform it. Click once more on the entry to undo the operation.

Repeat Last Operation can be performed for the following actions on the document:

• Typing: Repeat Last Operation history buffer remembers the last chunk of characters that were typed. The typing sequence is broken when:

  • The user clicks in the document.

  • The user switches between tabbed documents.

• Paste: Repeat Last Operation can repeat the last paste operation at the current cursor location for both text and graphic objects in the clipboard. The list of graphic objects that can be pasted with Repeat Last Operation, are as follows: Aframe, Arc, Ellipse, Group, Inset, Line, Math, Polygon, Polyline, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, TextFrame, TextLine, Unanchored Frame.

  Note: The copy operation is not repeatable.

• Delete: Repeat Last Operation can repeat deletion of both text as well as graphical objects.

  Note: If you delete multiple characters and then use Repeat Last Operation, only a single character is deleted. Character deletion and object deletion operations are interchangeable. If you delete a character and then perform a Repeat Last Operation on a graphic object, the graphic object is also deleted.

• Apply Character Format Changes: Repeat Last Operation can reapply the properties of the last applied character format to the new text selection.

• Apply Paragraph Format Changes: Repeat Last Operation can reapply the properties of the last applied paragraph format to the new paragraph selection.

• Insert Graphic Objects: Repeat Last Operation can reinsert the last inserted graphic object at the current cursor location. This operation works across documents.

  The list of graphic objects that can be inserted are as follows:

  Aframe, Arc, Ellipse, Group, Inset, Line, Math, Polygon, Polyline, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, TextFrame, TextLine, Unanchored Frame.

• Insert Table: You can use Repeat Last Operation to reinsert the last inserted table at the current cursor location.

• Set Object Properties: When you apply the Repeat Last Operation command to set object properties, FrameMaker applies the last specified object properties to the new object.

• Set Text Properties: Repeat Last Operation can repeat the last selected text property such as Plain, Bold, Italic, Underline and Justify to the currently selected text or paragraph.

• Insert Footnote/Anchored Frame: You can use the Repeat Last Operation command to insert a previously inserted Footnote/Anchored Frame at the current cursor position.

• Find/Change: When you apply the Repeat Last Operation command to the Find/Change procedure, FrameMaker performs the last Find/Change operation on any further occurrences of the specified text.

• Apply Conditional Text: Repeat Last Operation can repeat the last applied conditional tag to the currently selected text.

The shortcut key for the Repeat Last Operation action is F6. Repeat Last Operation is session-specific and not document specific.

Repeat Last Operation actions can be turned off by editing maker.ini. Edit the following entries:

• RepeatTypingEnabled: By default this entry is set to ON. Set this entry to OFF to disable the repeat typing operation.

• RepeatEnabled: By default this entry is set to ON. Set this entry to OFF to disable the repeat last operation actions.

Know about the History pod in FrameMaker.

The Edit > Undo and Redo menus show the most recent command, but a complete command history is available in the Undo History pod, available from View > Undo History or by pressing Ctrl+K. This pod allows you to select an action to undo or redo. The command history is shown only for the active document.

In the Undo History pod, the most recent command is highlighted. Commands listed above the most recent are undoable. Commands listed below the most recent are redoable, and are marked with an asterisk (*).

The Undo History pod

You can undo and redo actions only in the order in which they were originally performed. When you select a command to undo, all later commands (which have been affected by the selected action) are also undone. FrameMaker also moves the selected command and all succeeding commands to the Redo list. Similarly, redoing a command moves it and subsequent commands back to the Undo list.