{"id":214,"date":"2008-12-15T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-12-13T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T18:49:19","slug":"the-power-of-ctrly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Ctrl+Y"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAnyone who’s been around computers for a while knows that Ctrl+Z is the Undo key. (Well, if you don’t know, then get a copy of PCs For Dummies<\/em> and learn now!) Ctrl+Z can help save your butt in a number of situations. But Ctrl+Z, the Undo command, has a twin. It’s Ctrl+Y, the Redo command.
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\nThe basic way to use Ctrl+Y, which is also ⌘+Y on a Mac, is what I call the “double-oops.”<\/p>\n

Ctrl+Z works to undo something. That something is text you typed, a command, or any non-file operation. (You cannot undo a file save, but you can undo a file rename or delete.) If you change your mind, sometimes you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the undo. In many programs, however, you can continue to press Ctrl+Z to continue to undo things. In that case, Ctrl+Z followed by a Ctrl+Z is not an undo-undo, but rather a sequential undo.<\/p>\n

For those programs with multiple Undos, the Ctrl+Y or Redo command is used. In that case, you can use Ctrl+Y to backtrack through the Undo commands, restoring something you might have overzealously undone. (Some programs might not use Ctrl+Y. Some use Shift+Ctrl+Z, but Ctrl+Y is more common.)<\/p>\n

I find myself using Ctrl+Y often when writing blog posts; writing on-line doesn’t work like a word processor. So, for example, I’ll press Ctrl+Z to undo the last word I typed and instead the last sentence I typed is deleted. In that case, pressing Ctrl+Y brings it back. Safe. Reliable.<\/p>\n

But there is a more powerful aspect of Ctrl+Y that few users know about. That’s the other side of the Redo command, which is more of a repeat than a do-over.<\/p>\n

The Ctrl+Y repeat feature works only in certain programs, such as Microsoft Word. Basically, whatever command you used or text you typed is repeated when you press Ctrl+Y (or ⌘+Y on a Mac).<\/p>\n

If you delete a word, press Ctrl+Y to delete the next word \u2014 and keep deleting words as long as you press Ctrl+Y. Or if you just formatted a paragraph, press Ctrl+Y to format another paragraph, and so on.<\/p>\n

For typing text, press Ctrl+Y to repeat the last chunk of text you typed.<\/p>\n

For typing text, press Ctrl+Y to repeat the last chunk of text you typed.<\/p>\n

See? It works! And it saves some time, especially when you’re creating forms or text that repeats often. That’s the power of Ctrl+Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who’s been around computers for a while knows that Ctrl+Z is the Undo key. (Well, if you don’t know, then get a copy of PCs For Dummies and learn now!) Ctrl+Z can help save your butt in a number of situations. But Ctrl+Z, the Undo command, has a twin. It’s Ctrl+Y, the Redo command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}