Undo and redo
In the resume editor, undo steps back through your changes: typing, adding or deleting entries, moving sections, template and design changes, custom styles, and edits you accept from the Assistant.
These shortcuts undo resume-wide changes when your cursor isn’t in a text field. Inside a field, they undo your typing
in that field. Click outside the field first to undo a change such as a template switch.
The Undo and Redo buttons (curved arrows) in the editor bar always step through the resume-wide history, even
while you’re typing in a field, where the shortcuts undo that field’s typing instead. In the mobile app they sit in the
top bar of every tab. They’re dimmed when there’s nothing to undo or redo.
Many actions also show a message with an Undo button right after you make them, for example deleting an entry,
switching template, Fit to one page or Reset design defaults. That button takes back that action only.
If you’ve edited something since, it doesn’t undo your newer edit: a deleted entry or section, or a cleared section,
comes back where it was, and for other actions the message tells you to use Undo to step back through your changes.
How undo behaves:
- Typing groups into one step. Edits to the same field less than a second apart undo together, so one undo removes a phrase rather than a letter.
- Up to 200 steps are kept.
- Undo lasts while the resume is open. Reloading the page or opening the resume again starts a fresh undo history. So does restoring a version, or a change arriving from somewhere else, such as another tab or an API client.
Open History
On a desktop-width window, select the History icon (a clock) in the editor bar, next to the Assistant icon. History opens in the Download & history panel on its History tab. On a narrower window or a phone, select the resume’s name at the top left to open the document menu, then History.
Name a version so you can recognize it later
What gets saved automatically
You don’t need to save anything for History to work. Versions are added when:
Resumes and cover letters both have History. A letter’s versions work the same way; only the kinds that apply to
letters appear.
Save a named version
Name a version before a big change, or when you send the resume somewhere, so it’s easy to find later.1
Open History
Select the History icon, or open the document name menu and choose History.
2
Type a name
In Name this version, type a short name such as “Sent to Lumen” or “Before tailoring” (up to 80 characters).
3
Save
Select Save. The version appears in the timeline with a bookmark icon and the detail “named”.
Preview and restore a version
1
Select a version
Select any version in the timeline. The page shows that version, read-only, and a bar at the top of History says
which version you’re viewing.
2
Restore it, or go back
Select Restore this version to make it your current resume, or Back to now to leave it. Closing the panel
also takes you back to now.
Review a saved version before restoring
Restoring saves the previous state first
Restoring clears the editor’s undo history, so ⌘ Z can’t reverse it. Use Before restore
instead. A locked resume can’t be restored over; select Unlock editing in the document menu first.
Browser recovery copies
Browser recovery copies
If saving a resume fails, a recovery copy may stay in this browser for up to seven days. Successful sign-out or
account deletion clears these copies, saved contact snapshots and career drafts from browser storage. Save or export
unfinished work before signing out. Server-saved versions follow the History retention rules above.
Related guides
- Tracking job applications: applications keep the exact version you sent.
- Using the Assistant: accepted edits can be undone like any other change.
- Keyboard shortcuts: every editor shortcut in one place.