Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER

Adding content to pages

Last updated 3/28/2012

Certain mouse movements, such as selecting by clicking in the Document window, can’t be played back or saved.

When you make such a movement, a black line appears in the History panel (the line does not become obvious until

you perform another action). To avoid this, use the arrow keys instead of the mouse to move the insertion point within

the Document window

Some other steps also aren’t repeatable, such as dragging a page element to somewhere else on the page. When you

perform such a step, an icon with a small red X appears in the History panel.

Saved commands are retained permanently (unless you delete them), while recorded commands are discarded when

you exit from Adobe®

Dreamweaver® CS5, and copied sequences of steps are discarded when you copy something else

Use the History panel

The History panel (Window > History) shows a list of the steps you’ve performed in the active document since you

created or opened that document (but not steps you’ve performed in other frames, in other Document windows, or in

the Site panel). Use the History panel to undo multiple steps at once and to automate tasks.

A. Slider (thumb) B. Steps C. Replay button D. Copy Steps button E. Save As Command button

The slider, or thumb, in the History panel initially points to the last step that you performed.

Note: You can’t rearrange the order of steps in the History panel. Don’t think of the History panel as an arbitrary

collection of commands; think of it as a way to view the steps you’ve performed, in the order in which you performed them.

Undo the last step

❖ Do one of the following:

• Select Edit > Undo.

• Drag the History panel slider up one step in the list.

Note: To scroll automatically to a particular step, you must click to the left of the step; clicking the step itself selects the

step. Selecting a step is different from going back to that step in your undo history.

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 steps as it scrolls.

Note: As with undoing a single step, if you undo a series of steps and then do something new in the document, you can no

longer redo the undone steps; they disappear from the History panel.

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