Edit-Undo appears when you are in a Rich Text field, but as soon as you use it once, it greys out. The help even says "You can undo your last editing action if you made a mistake". It's one of the few things that I've always found to be really frustrating about Notes, going way back.

So I was amazed, surprised and rather pleased recently when I discovered, quite by accident, that repeated presses of Ctrl-Z seem to work just fine. Annoying, too, because I've always been one of those people who prefers to use keyboard shortcuts rather than mousing up to menus; annoying that I didn't discover it earlier. I've found that Ctrl-Z will remove at least the last 32 actions, except those that Notes tells you can't be removed. Exactly what it will and won't do, I've not explored, but anything is better than just the last action on its own, yes?

There's more. It also works in the LotusScript editor in Domino Designer, where Edit - Undo has never been available. Now, that is really useful, especially if where, like me, you are on a project that has you writing LotusScript from dawn till dusk. That's literally what I'm doing right now -- and the days getting quite long now as we head into summer.

I just checked, too, with my 6.5.1 Designer, and it works in the Formula and Java editors too.

Mick Moignard has been working and traveling with Lotus Notes since Release 2.0 in 1991. Mick is a DominoPower Senior Technical Editor and a Principal CLP with Unipart Expert Practices, a Lotus Advanced Partner in the UK. If you want to discuss anything to do with this article, or indeed anything else to do with Notes and Domino, contact Mick at Mick_Moignard@unipart.co.uk. Unipart Expert Practices will also happily discuss any opportunities you may have with any Notes and Domino application development or infrastructure projects you need help with. Unipart Expert Practices can be found at http://www.unipartep.com.