Operation Manual
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USING DREAMWEAVER
Adding content to pages
Last updated 3/28/2012
Set the number of steps that the History panel retains and shows
The default number of steps is sufficient for most users’ needs. The higher the number, the more memory the History
panel requires, which can affect performance and slow your computer significantly.
1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).
2 Select General from the Category list on the left.
3 Enter a number for Maximum Number Of History Steps.
When the History panel reaches this maximum number of steps, the earliest steps are discarded.
Erase the history list for the current document:
❖ In the History panel’s context menu, select Clear History.
This command also clears all undo information for the current document; after choosing Clear History, you can’t undo
the steps that are cleared. Clear History does not undo steps; it merely removes the record of those steps from memory.
Repeat steps
Use the History panel to repeat the last step you performed, repeat a series of adjacent steps, or repeat a series of
nonadjacent steps. Replay the steps directly from the History panel.
Repeat one step
❖ Do one of the following:
• Select Edit > Redo.
• In the History panel, select a step and click the Replay button. The step is replayed and a copy of it appears in the
History panel.
Repeat a series of steps
1 Select steps in the History panel:
• To select adjacent steps, drag from one step to another (don’t drag the slider; just drag from the text label of one
step to the text label of another step), or select the first step, and then Shift-click the last step.
• To select nonadjacent steps, select a step, and then Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) to
select or deselect other steps.
The steps played are the selected (highlighted) steps, not necessarily the step the slider currently points to.
Note: Although you can select a series of steps that includes a black line indicating a step that can’t be recorded, that step
is skipped when you replay the steps.
2 Click Replay.
The steps are replayed in order, and a new step, Replay Steps, appears in the History panel.
Make or extend a selection
❖ Hold down the Shift key while pressing an arrow key.
If a black mouse-movement indicator line appears while you’re performing a task you want to repeat later, you can
undo back to before that step and try another approach, perhaps using the arrow keys.