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FYI : vent and a point about article editor raddevus7-Dec-17 5:45 raddevus 7-Dec-17 5:45  I am currently editing my long article chapter 11 Programming Windows Via UWP. It has 17 images and a number of code downloads. I've just spent 40 minutes hand formatting variable names (highlight, click V button). I have used the undo button in the past with great success -- even on this article a number of times. However, I just clicked it once and it removed all my formatting changes, except for 2 or three. Awwww...man! I know should'a saved this, should'a offline edited it, should'a... Anyone else ever report that the undo behaves like this? Just an FYI and blowing off the steam cuz now I gotta go back and spend another 40 minutes to get back to where I was. Thanks EDIT - This may have to do with periodic outages from CP so nothing we can do about that,I'm sure. I'm seeing long delays when I attempt to post. Not complaining, just letting you know. thanks EDIT 2 I think the real answer is that I should've saved a draft earlier on. My fault really. modified 7-Dec-17 11:53am. Re: FYI : vent and a point about article editor Chris Maunder7-Dec-17 6:40 Chris Maunder 7-Dec-17 6:40  The submission wizard saves a draft every minute, so you should be able to go back to auto-saved versions by viewing the revision history of the article. We use CKEditor and have essentially stopped attempting to work around the changes and strangenesses of it and of browsers. At one point we tried, but browsers were changing so often it was a pointless task. All I can do is apologise on behalf of the CKEditor and/or browser manufacturer cheers Chris Maunder Re: FYI : vent and a point about article editor raddevus7-Dec-17 7:01 raddevus 7-Dec-17 7:01  Chris Maunder wrote: you should be able to go back to auto-saved versions by viewing the revision history I thought so too. That's part of the reason I was confused. I didn't find any other revisions. It may have been because of some connectivity issues at the same time. It's okay. I appreciate your help and know that all of this type of stuff cannot really be alleviated. I'll probably start doing more offline editing until I've got my articles tweaked to almost 100% completeness. That'll probably be best. Thanks for understanding. I really appreciate CP and all the work you guys put into this stuff. Best site around for this.

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