Working on Microsoft Office allows you to undo, redo, or repeat several options in MS Office Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. It means you can undo changes, even after saving, and then keep them, as long as you are within the undo limits. By default, MS Office reserves the last 100 undo-able actions, which allows you to undo the previous 100 actions in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel.
However, if you want to increase or decrease the number of these undo-able actions, you can always do that by adding an entry in the Windows Registry. But, in case you are using a slow PC, increasing the number of rebounds over 100 is not recommended since doing so makes MS Office acquire more of your Random Access Memory (RAM) to save the undo history. It may affect your computer’s overall performance and applications like MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
In the same way, if you undo history to zero, no memory is allocated to the process, and thus, your computer runs smoothly. Now, if you still want to change the undo limit in Microsoft Office applications, this risewindows article will help you.
How to Modify the Undo Limit in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on Windows 11 or 10?
The process to alter the undo limit in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are similar. So, learning how to do it for any of the applications will do the job, and you’ll be able to do it on your Windows 11/10.
Use the following steps to change the undo limit in Microsoft Office Excel:
Step 1: Now, start by Opening Registry Editor.
Step 2: Next, navigate to the following path in the Registry Editor according to your Office version:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\Options
On a side note, you must replace “Excel” with the correct program in the above path. You can use “Word” or “PowerPoint” instead of “Excel” for MS Word and PowerPoint, respectively. You must note that “16.0” may differ depending on your version of MS Office. For instance, you will find “12.0” for Microsoft Office Excel 2003.
Step 3: Right-click on
Step 4: Name the newly created REG_DWORD as
Step 5: Double-click and open
Step 6: Select “Base” as
Step 7: You must enter your desired number in the “Value data” field.
Step 8: Click on the
After completing all the above steps, restart the Excel application. It will now store the undo history for the number of actions you’ve mentioned in step 7. You will have to repeat this process for other applications like MS Word or PowerPoint.
That’s it.
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