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Chapter 12:  Working with Pages

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.

To set the number of steps that the History panel retains and shows:

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.

The default value should be sufficient for most users’ needs. The higher the number, the 
more memory the History panel requires. This can affect performance and slow your 
computer down significantly. When the History panel reaches this maximum number of 
steps, the earliest steps are discarded.

To erase the history list for the current document:

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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 will be unable to undo the steps that are cleared. (Note that Clear 
History does not undo steps; it merely removes the record of those steps from 
Dreamweaver’s memory.)

Related topics

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Automating tasks

While creating your documents, you may want to perform the same task numerous times. 

To repeat a series of steps once or twice, replay them directly from the History panel, which 
records your steps as you work on a document. (For basic information about the History 
panel, see 

.) To automate a task that you perform 

often, you can create a new command that performs that task automatically.

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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.