{"id":4278,"date":"2019-01-10T12:17:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2019-01-10T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:07:57","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-increase-the-maximum-number-of-undo-operations-in-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4278","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 you can increase the maximum number of \u201cundo\u201d operations in PowerPoint?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a big fan of \u201cundo\u201d \u2013 highlighted something to copy it but missed the \u2018ctrl\u2019 part of ctrl-c? Undo! Editing an image and drew a line the wrong place? Undo! Change some verbiage and regret the modifications? Undo! (I\u2019ll generally copy the stuff I\u2019ve added into a new document before I start hitting ctrl-z {the keyboard shortcut for undo} and incorporate a few of the new ideas into the original text.) Occasionally, you run out of undo-able operations. If you are saving to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3565\" target=\"_blank\">OneDrive<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">SharePoint, or Teams<\/a>, you can use the version history to get back to your original content. But did you know that PowerPoint allows you to increase the number of undo operations available?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click \u201cFile\u201d on the ribbon bar and select \u201cOptions\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo01-1024x689.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo01-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo01-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo01-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo01.png 1511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Select \u201cAdvanced\u201d. Under \u201cEditing options\u201d, you will see a\nmaximum number of undos \u2013 this value defaults to 20. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"840\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo02-1024x840.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo02-1024x840.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo02-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo02-768x630.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PPT-MoreUndo02.png 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can increase it up to 150 \u2013 although higher numbers can\nadversely impact performance, so stick to a lower number unless you <em>really<\/em> want to undo a hundred operations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of \u201cundo\u201d \u2013 highlighted something to copy it but missed the \u2018ctrl\u2019 part of ctrl-c? Undo! Editing an image and drew a line the wrong place? Undo! Change some verbiage and regret the modifications? Undo! (I\u2019ll generally copy the stuff I\u2019ve added into a new document before I start hitting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[675,691,729,734,742,741],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-powerpoint","tag-ms-powerpoint","tag-powerpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}