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You can undo or redo a single step or a series of steps quickly with the
History panel. The History panel contains the Undo/Redo slider which
you can drag up to undo (restore previous steps) a series of steps, or
drag down to redo (restore steps you’ve undone) a series of steps. You
can also undo and redo previous steps one at a time using the Undo
and Redo commands on the Edit menu. When you use these com-
mands, the steps in the History panel change based on the command
results. The History panel and the Undo command can undo steps up to
a maximum number (from 2 to 9999) set in the General tab of the
Preferences dialog box.
Undoing and Redoing
Steps
Undo Steps with the
History Panel
Open or expand the History panel.
Drag the Undo/Redo slider up until
the slider points to the last step
you want to keep.
TIMESAVER
Position the
pointer in the gray area to the left
of a step, and then click the gray
area to make the slider point to
the step.
Flash undoes and grays out each
selected step, starting from the
bottom.
When you’re done, click the Close

step you want to redo.
Flash redoes and removes the gray
highlighting for each selected
step.
When you’re done, click the Close
button on the History panel.
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You can redo steps using the Redo
command.
Click the Edit menu, and
then click Redo, or press
A
+Y (Mac)
or Ctrl+Y (Win).
You can change the number of undo
levels for the Undo command.
Click the
Flash (Mac) or Edit (Win) menu, click
Preferences, click the General tab,
enter a number (from 2 to 9999) in the
Undo Level box, and then click OK.
Saving Documents After Using Undo
When you delete an object in a document, the file size of the docu-
ment doesn’t change. The document still includes the size of the
object you just deleted to preserve the possibility you might want to

step, hold down the Shift key,
and then click the last step.
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Nonadjacent steps. Hold down
the A (Mac) or Ctrl (Win) key,
and then click steps.
Select the same object used in the
History steps or another object.
Click Replay in the History panel.
The steps are replayed in order,
and a new step called Replay
Steps appears in the History panel.
When you’re done, click the Close
button on the History panel.
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Single step selection
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Multiple step selection
Replay multiple steps
See Also
See “Copying Steps Between
Documents” on page 476 for informa-

Changing the View in the History Panel
The Options menu in the History panel allows you to change the way
you view steps. You can view steps in the History panel with scripting
arguments or JavaScript commands. Even if you are not a program-
mer, you can get a better idea about the functionality of each step by
looking at the scripting argument or JavaScript commands. If you
want to view scripting arguments or JavaScript commands in the
History panel as you need it without having to change the view each
time, you can view the information as a tooltip. To change the view,
click the Options menu in the History panel, point to View, and then
click a view option: Default (steps only), Arguments In Panel,
JavaScript In Panel, Arguments In Tooltip, or JavaScript In Tooltip.
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The History panel records the steps you take in the order in which you
performed them in Flash. If you perform the same set of steps several
times while you work on a document, you can save the steps in the
History panel as a command on the Commands menu, which you can
reuse again and again. Flash stores the commands you save for future
use (even if you close the document). Some steps, including selecting a
frame or modifying a document size, can’t be saved as commands, but
they can be undone and redone. If a red X appears in the icon for a
step, it indicates Flash cannot save or replay the step. After you save
steps as a command, you can run, rename, or delete commands.
Saving Steps and
Using Commands
Save Steps as a Command

select the command you want to
remove, click Delete, click Yes, and
then click OK.
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