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In all cases, there is no practical limit to the number of steps that are undoable (although there
may be a limit to what you can remember). To take advantage of this, there are three ways you
can undo work to go to a previous state of your project, no matter what page you’re in.
To simply undo or redo changes you’ve made one at a time:
 Choose Edit > Undo (Command-Z) to undo the previous change.
 Choose Edit > Redo (Shift-Command-Z) to redo to the next change.
 On the DaVinci control panel, press the UNDO and REDO buttons on the T-bar panel.
TIP: If you have the DaVinci control panel, there is one other control that lets you
control the undo stack more directly when using the trackballs, rings, and pots.
Pressing RESTORE POINT manually adds a memory of the current state of the grade to
the undo stack. Since discrete undo states are difficult to predict when you’re making
ongoing adjustments with the trackball and ring controls, pressing RESTORE POINT
lets you set predictable states of the grade that you can fall back on.
You can also undo several steps at a time using the History submenu and window. At the time
of this writing, this only works for multiple undo steps in the Media, Cut, Edit, and
Fairlight pages.
To undo and redo using the History submenu:
1 Open the Edit > History submenu, which shows (up to) the last twenty things you’ve
done.
2 Choose an item on the list to undo back to that point. The most recent thing you’ve
done appears at the top of this list, and the change you’ve just made appears with a
check next to it. Steps that have been undone but that can still be redone remain in this
menu, so you can see what’s possible. However, if you’ve undone several changes at
once and then you make a new change, you cannot undo any more and those steps
disappear from the menu.
The History submenu, which lets you undo several steps at once
Once you’ve selected a step to undo to, the menu closes and the project updates to show you
its current state.
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