Undo/redo buffers empty

[Rhythmdvl]

Every once in a while, some combination of keystrokes empties the undo and
redo buffers. All of a sudden, both buttons on the toolbar gray out and
control-Z/Y do nothing.

This seems to occur when I’ve mis-keyed something (i.e., my fingers don’t
hit the key-combination I was trying for), though I haven’t been able to tell
the exact combination that does it. It’s happened on documents that have been
open for both long and short amounts of time, and there seems to be no
connection to the buffer emptying and the last time I saved.


Any ideas of how/why this happens? Can I remap those keys to avoid the issue?

Thanks,

Rhythm

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Protecting/unprotecting a document is the only thing I know of that will
clear the Undo/Redo stack. It is possible, of course, that you are
fumble-fingering the keyboard shortcut for a macro intended to do this (if
you are using a system set up by someone else; if it's your own personal
one, presumably you would know of the existence of such a macro).

OTOH, I don't know of a keyboard shortcut for protecting/unprotecting a
document, so that would have to exist as well for your scenario to be
possible. Or conceivably you could be inadvertently keying the accelerator
sequence Alt, T, P. In recent versions of Word, however, this would open the
Protect Document task pane, so it would be pretty obvious what was going on.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Rhythmdvl]

Thanks. I have Editorium’s Editors Toolkit installed, but I don’t believe it
does that. Then again, though I use a lot of its features, I use far from all
of them.

I also have a slew of personal macros which is what tends to yield odd
key-strokes if I botch it (i.e., alt-ctl-WHAT?!). All of my personal macros
are left hand based, so no P there. Also, the accelerator command is
alt-l-pr, so that’s not happening (and like you said, it brought up a menu
that I don’t see).

I keep trying to pay attention to what triggers it, but since it’s
accidental (if it’s related to key mashing), I never catch it until it’s too
late.