Undo & saving
Undo and redo
Section titled “Undo and redo”Undo and redo are in the top bar, next to search. They cover cell edits, inserted, deleted and moved rows, and column changes: up to 50 steps while the file is open.
They don’t cover sorting, filtering, search or layout, because those only change what you’re looking at.
After an undo or redo, the table scrolls to what changed and selects it: the cells you edited, or the rows you inserted, deleted or moved. There is no “undone” message: the selection is the confirmation. If a filter hides them, a message says so.
Deleting rows or a column and clearing several cells don’t ask first. Instead, a message says what happened and offers Undo for a few seconds.
Closing the file clears the history.
Your edits are always saved
Section titled “Your edits are always saved”Opening a CSV copies it into Smart CSV. Every edit is saved there as you make it, so there is no save button and nothing to lose when you close the file.
When you share or email the file, what goes out is the table you see, with every edit in it. A big file takes a few seconds to get ready; the Preparing to send dialog counts the rows, and Cancel sends nothing.
The file keeps its own encoding, so a Japanese or Russian file stays readable
in the app that made it. If your edits have characters that encoding can’t
hold, such as an emoji in a Shift_JIS file, you’re asked first: tap Use
UTF-8, or keep the encoding and those characters are written as ?.
A file you picked from iCloud Drive, Google Drive or another app is not changed there. To replace it, share the file and save it over the original.
When the file changes on disk
Section titled “When the file changes on disk”When you open a file again:
- Unchanged: it opens instantly, with your edits.
- Changed, not edited in Smart CSV: it is read again and you’re asked to check it.
- Changed and edited: you choose Reload (your edits are dropped) or Keep my edits.