How to reverse a change all command

Russ,

    There are situations in which I really wish the scope would reset automatically during a session and other situations in which it would be very annoying. For example, if I'm going to perform a sequence of global changes, I don't want to reset every option for each one.

    As far as prompting before opening, changing, saving, and closing a book component, perhaps one general prompt that book components will be changed that is only issued if there are closed book components. Such a prompt should be issued before changing any files, open or closed. Prompting for every book component would be a disaster in a book with hundreds (or even dozens) of components.

    I would suggest an option that enables/disables resetting the scope and prompting for book components, but the occasions when I wish the current behavior were different are too hard to predict.

Stefan,

    Adobe needs to be very careful making a change in this area. It may be a case where helping many users some of the time will harm many users as often, and some users may be in both groups.

Barb,

    I agree that backup files can be invaluable here. In addition to FM's automatic backup, users may want to make a copy of an entire book before performing global changes or use an automatic backup tool outside of FM.

    I must also say that in the old days, FM's automatic backup was more useful than it is today. Somewhere along the way (FM 9?), FM started saving book components more than once when updating a book, so that backup files after a book update are pretty much useless.

     --Lynne

Hi Russ,

good catch! I have just created a ticket for this.

Please note, that FM remembers within a session, the last search scope selection. So once you have changed it, it properly switches the scope when switching between book and doc.