The History panel

The History panel shows a list of the steps you've performed in the active document since you created or opened that document, up to a specified maximum number of steps. (The History panel doesn't show steps you've performed in other documents.) The slider in the History panel initially points to the last step that you performed.

You can use the History panel to undo or redo individual steps or multiple steps at once. You can apply steps from the history panel to the same object or to a different object in the document. However, you can't rearrange the order of steps in the History panel. The History panel is a record of steps in the order in which they were performed.

Note: If you undo a step or a series of steps and then do something new in the document, you can no longer redo the steps in the History panel; they disappear from the panel.

To remove deleted items from a document after you undo a step in the History panel, you use the Save and Compact command. See Saving documents when you undo steps.

By default, Flash supports 100 levels of undo for the History panel. You can select the number of undo and redo levels, from 2 to 9999, in Flash Preferences. See Setting preferences in Flash.

You can clear the History panel to erase the history list for the current document. After clearing the history list, you will be unable to undo the steps that are cleared. Clearing the history list does not undo steps; it merely removes the record of those steps from the current document's memory.

Closing a document clears its history. If you know you will want to use steps from a document after that document is closed, copy the steps with the Copy Steps command or save the steps as a command. See Copying and pasting steps between documents or Automating tasks with the Commands menu.

To open the History panel:

To erase the history list for the current document:

Undoing steps with the History panel

You can undo the last step or multiple steps with the History panel. When you undo a step, the step is dimmed in the History panel.

To undo the last step performed:

To undo multiple steps at once, do one of the following: