> > > My question: In a spreadsheet, I cannot undo. If I accidentally enter >> information into a cell that already has information, I cannot undo and >> retrieve the original contents. It is lost forever. I have to exit >> without >> saving changes just to open up again to find out what used to be there. >> Why >> have an undo button that doesn't work? Makes working with OO very >> unnerving. Is it because I am using a Mac? >> >> > > Ah. Mac. Don't know about Macs but I can't imagine it's different, in this > respect anyway, from Windows or Linux (both of which I use regularly). The > Undo function is available under the Edit menu. You can put its button on > the Tool bar by using View>Toolbars>Customise>Standard and then scrolling > down to the Undo button whose icon is a yellow curved arrow with its head > pointing to the left. Select the icon and click Add. You can move the icon > left/right on the toolbar by clicking the up/down arrow next to the list of > icons. When you are happy, click OK. There's also a Redo function whose icon > is a green curved arrow with its head pointing to the right. Same procedure > if you want. >
Your main question seems to center around the fact that the information is lost when cell contents are overwritten. On all the versions that I've used (various OS) the undo button *does* restore the previous cell contents just fine. Perhaps it is just a 'mac' thing. I'll let others on the list that utilise OOo on Mac's confirm/deny this - but the correct behaviour certainly occurs on windows/linux from my experience. /paul -- Joan Crawford<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/joan_crawford.html> - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."
