'First rule of management – check all assumptions' <vbg>
When I presented the two approaches in an unordered list, I assumed this would be read as "follow either step for its own result"; I should have given a better lead-in. So, assuming OP deletes the initial letter and then types in a replacement :-} that would that be tracked/saved, wouldn't it?

That would be tracked as two separate changes, each accounting for a single character. I don't know that that's an improvement (let the OP decide) as the procedure is more convoluted to implement and leaves you with two changes to accept/reject instead of one.

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Paul Edstein
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