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Every one else after that was just capitalizing on the works of Lotus developers. humans and microsoft? do they even know how to spell user interface design? and am I just way old or does anyone remember Visicalc that preceded both lotus and excel? as for undo, which is what the conversation started with, why would any one want it, we're all perfect right?

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  1. transitive verb To reverse or erase; annul: impossible to undo the suffering caused by the war.
  2. transitive verb To untie, disassemble, or loosen: undo a shoelace.
  3. transitive verb To open (a parcel, for example); unwrap.
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  • For he had arrived at a provisional assessment of the man The chains of race and tradition are ill to undo, and Galliard, in his brilliant advance to success, had loosened, not broken them. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • This is something that you can't undo, and you should find a way to accept it. —  Magazine - Asimov's Science Fiction - 2007 - Issue 02 - February
  • Napoleon made allies of all powers he could not easily undo, and proffered his support—biding his time. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
  • If any 'undo' phases are entered (where an administrator has decided to go from redirected back to prepared, redirected back to start, or prepared back to start), the flow above happens in reverse, with the exception that the following two entries exist in the —  TechNet Blogs
  • There also was enabling and disabling Smart Guides, undo, redo, paste in front, paste in back, group, ungroup, make mask, make compound path etc etc. —  Veerle's blog: full articles
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  1. from un- + do.
  2. from Middle English undon, ondon (preterit undyde, undede, past participle undon, ondon), from Anglo-Saxon undōn (= OFries, undūa), put back, open, undo, from un-, back, + dōn, put, do: see un- and do.
 

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