How to Undo and Redo in Google Docs?

April 28, 2022

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to undo and redo in Google Docs. We recommend you study this manual carefully and start practicing!

Checklist of crucial points we aim to highlight here:

The “Undo” Command in Google Docs
The “Redo” Command in Google Docs

Now you will see how to use the “Undo” and “Redo” commands in Google Docs.

Basically, using the “Redo” and “Undo” commands in Google Docs is no different from how you do this in all other software on Windows OS and Mac OS. The principle is simple.

Sometimes, you may need to restore changes made in the document, for example, when you have deleted something by accident. And on the other hand, there's a redo function in case you want to recover what you’ve canceled with the undo action.Watch the video from https://thegoodocs.com/ and find out how to undo and redo in Google Docs:

The “Undo” Command in Google Docs

In this example, we are entering some text and then we are selecting a part of it. And let’s say that we accidentally delete it. It’s gone now. And since we’ve deleted it by accident, we want to bring it back. To do that, we go to “Edit” on the toolbar at the top of the page and click on “Undo” on the first line. And the deleted text is back

NB! Now another way is to use a keyboard shortcut for a faster function implementation, which is Ctrl + Z on Windows OS and Cmd + Z on Mac OS.

The “Redo” Command in Google Docs

Now let’s talk about the “Redo” command.

After seeing the recovered text, for instance, we realize that we don’t actually need it, so we redo the previous action by going back to “Edit” on the toolbar at the top of the page and clicking on “Redo” on the second line. The text is gone again. And basically, it canceled the result of the “Undo” command

NB! And there’s a shortcut for the “Redo” command as well, so we are restoring the text and pressing Ctrl + Y on the keyboard for Windows OS and Cmd + Y for Mac OS.

NB! On top of that, the “Undo” and “Redo” commands are applicable to literally every action made in Google Docs.

For example, it works with images. And here we have one image. We select it and then delete it. Now we go to “Edit” at the top of the page, then we press “Undo”. And the image is back

Besides, this works even with text formatting, for instance. Let us select some text. Now we’ll make it bold and then center it on the page

Now pressing Ctrl + Z or Cmd + Z once returns the original left alignment and pressing Ctrl + Z or Cmd + Z for the second time removes applied bold formatting

Or, for instance, let’s cancel the bold formatting removal with the redo function. To use it, we can press Ctrl + Y on the keyboard, and the bold formatting is back. That’s how you do this

NB! You can also use the special buttons (the left arrow and the right arrow) at the top of the page (on the left side) to run the "Undo" and "Redo" commands.

We hope this tutorial will help you learn how to undo and redo in Google Docs. Good luck!

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