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| | :# Click the browser's "back" button. In theory, you are going back to the last preview view. The browser will respond with an error message, saying that the page has expired, and to click the Refresh button if you want to resubmit your entry. (What you are thereby resubmitting is the text that you last previewed). | | :# Click the browser's "back" button. In theory, you are going back to the last preview view. The browser will respond with an error message, saying that the page has expired, and to click the Refresh button if you want to resubmit your entry. (What you are thereby resubmitting is the text that you last previewed). |
| | :# Click the Refresh button. The browser has effectively gone back to step 2. That is, it has resent the contents of the edit box, which it has remembered. So you now find yourself back in the edit box, ''with your changes intact'', ready for you to remove the offending word and resubmit. | | :# Click the Refresh button. The browser has effectively gone back to step 2. That is, it has resent the contents of the edit box, which it has remembered. So you now find yourself back in the edit box, ''with your changes intact'', ready for you to remove the offending word and resubmit. |
| − | :* This might seem a convoluted way of avoiding the problem, and perhaps it is is this is the only reason you use the "Show preview" button, but if you get yourself into the habit of previewing before submitting, it's no extra work except when you need to recover your edit. | + | :* This might seem a convoluted way of avoiding the problem, and perhaps it is if this is the only reason you use the "Show preview" button, but if you get yourself into the habit of previewing before submitting, it's no extra work except when you need to recover your edit. |
| | :* If you preview, then make a minor change, then try to save the page ''without getting another preview'', then the text you recover will be as it was ''before'' you made those minor changes; i.e. it will be as it was when you last previewed. | | :* If you preview, then make a minor change, then try to save the page ''without getting another preview'', then the text you recover will be as it was ''before'' you made those minor changes; i.e. it will be as it was when you last previewed. |
| | :[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:17, 13 June 2007 (EDT) | | :[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:17, 13 June 2007 (EDT) |