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Chapter 1 ✦ Learning the Illustrator Interface
Choosing Undo from the Edit menu undoes the last activity that was performed on
the document. Successive undos undo more and more activities, until the document
is at the point where it was opened or created or you have run out of memory.
The default minimum number of remembered undos is five. To change the mini-
mum number of undos, go to the Units and Undo Preferences dialog box (Illustrator
[Edit] ➪ Preferences ➪ Units and Undo) and type in the minimum number of undos
that you want. You can set the minimum undo levels to zero, but we wouldn’t rec-
ommend it; this might disallow any undo or redo operations in certain situations
and is like tightrope walking without a safety net.
Choosing Redo from the Edit menu redoes the last undo. You can continue to redo
undos until you are back to the point where you started undoing or you perform
another activity, at which time you can no longer redo any previous undos.
If you undo a couple of times and then do something, you won’t be able to redo. You
have to undo the last thing you did and then actually do everything again. In other
words, all the steps that you undid are gone. It’s fine to use the Undo feature to go
back and check out what you did, but after you have used multiple undos, don’t do
anything if you want to redo back to where you started undoing from. Got that?
Summary
In this chapter, you learned
✦ Illustrator may seem difficult to learn at first, but with this book and a bit of
dedication, you can master it.
✦ Many of the user interface elements that are found in Illustrator are common
among Adobe products.
✦ Common user interface elements include the document window, the toolbox,
palettes, menus, and the status bar.
✦ You can view Illustrator documents at virtually any magnification level with-
out actually changing them.
✦ The Hand tool is used to pan the document window.
✦ Illustrator’s Outline mode lets you see paths without their strokes and fills.
✦ The Edit menu commands can be used to undo and redo commands, as well
as cutting, copying, and pasting objects.
✦ Illustrator provides virtually unlimited undos and redos.
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