diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/edit_text_ui.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/edit_text_ui.rs
index 396c430a7f..4724cbb6e5 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/edit_text_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/edit_text_ui.rs
@@ -276,15 +276,33 @@ pub(crate) fn input_id() -> egui::Id {
 /// as it was before a format change, into a box showing the page as it is now. `from` is the box's
 /// own record of that; which document `doc` last used the history is kept beside it, since a box
 /// in another tab on the same text would otherwise take that document's typing with its Redo.
+/// When another document's box takes the text box, the box it leaves keeps its history (and
+/// caret) aside, and gets it back on its return, so its typing can still be undone there.
 pub(crate) fn forget_typing_before(ctx: &egui::Context, id: egui::Id, doc: pdfcraft_engine::DocId, from: &mut Option<String>, text: &str) {
     let owner = id.with("typing-doc");
-    if from.as_deref() == Some(text) && ctx.data(|d| d.get_temp::<pdfcraft_engine::DocId>(owner)) == Some(doc) {
+    let last = ctx.data(|d| d.get_temp::<pdfcraft_engine::DocId>(owner));
+    if from.as_deref() == Some(text) && last == Some(doc) {
         return;
     }
-    if let Some(mut state) = egui::TextEdit::load_state(ctx, id) {
-        state.clear_undoer();
-        egui::TextEdit::store_state(ctx, id, state);
+    let aside = |doc: pdfcraft_engine::DocId| id.with(("typing-aside", doc));
+    if let Some(left) = last.filter(|l| *l != doc)
+        && let Some(state) = egui::TextEdit::load_state(ctx, id)
+    {
+        // A copy of its own: a state's history is shared between its clones, and the next box
+        // clears it in place.
+        let mut kept = egui::text_edit::TextEditState::default();
+        kept.cursor = state.cursor;
+        kept.set_undoer(state.undoer());
+        ctx.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(aside(left), kept));
     }
+    // Only the same box, still on the text it opened on, takes its history back.
+    let back = ctx.data_mut(|d| d.remove_temp::<egui::text_edit::TextEditState>(aside(doc))).filter(|_| from.as_deref() == Some(text));
+    let state = back.unwrap_or_else(|| {
+        let mut state = egui::TextEdit::load_state(ctx, id).unwrap_or_default();
+        state.clear_undoer();
+        state
+    });
+    egui::TextEdit::store_state(ctx, id, state);
     ctx.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(owner, doc));
     *from = Some(text.to_owned());
 }
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/content.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/content.rs
index a17d0793ea..43771ed724 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/content.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/content.rs
@@ -1022,6 +1022,42 @@ fn redo_from_the_menu_is_enabled_for_the_added_text_boxs_own_typing() {
     assert_eq!(h.state().views[0].content.draft.as_ref().map(|d| d.text.as_str()), Some("Reviewed twice"), "Redo puts it back");
 }
 
+/// Typing in tab A's added text box, the same text opened in tab B, then back to A: Edit ▸ Undo
+/// takes the typing back in A's box, which stays open.
+#[test]
+fn undo_after_a_round_trip_through_another_tab_takes_back_added_text_typing() {
+    let mut h = harness();
+    h.state_mut().open_bytes("copy.pdf", None, include_bytes!("../data/form.pdf").to_vec()).unwrap();
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    let text = pdfcraft_engine::AddedText { rect: [40.0, 195.0, 240.0, 210.0], text: "Reviewed".into(), ..Default::default() };
+    let open_in = |h: &mut Harness<'static, PdfCraftApp>, tab: usize| {
+        h.state_mut().active = Some(tab);
+        h.run_steps(2);
+        assert!(h.state_mut().execute("edit.text"));
+        h.run_steps(3);
+        let r = h.state().views[tab].page_screen_rect(0).expect("on screen");
+        let k = r.width() / 300.0;
+        click(h, r.min + egui::vec2(45.0 * k, 195.0 * k));
+        assert_eq!(h.state().views[tab].content.draft.as_ref().and_then(|d| d.index), Some(0), "the editor opened on the text");
+    };
+    for tab in [0, 1] {
+        h.state_mut().active = Some(tab);
+        assert!(h.state_mut().apply_edit(pdfcraft_engine::Edit::AddText { page: 0, text: text.clone() }));
+    }
+    open_in(&mut h, 0);
+    h.key_press_modifiers(egui::Modifiers::COMMAND, egui::Key::End);
+    h.event(egui::Event::Text(" twice".into()));
+    h.run_steps(2);
+    open_in(&mut h, 1);
+    h.state_mut().active = Some(0);
+    h.run_steps(3);
+    let draft = |h: &Harness<'static, PdfCraftApp>| h.state().views[0].content.draft.as_ref().map(|d| d.text.clone());
+    assert_eq!(draft(&h).as_deref(), Some("Reviewed twice"), "A's box is still open with the typing");
+    assert!(h.state_mut().execute("edit.undo"));
+    h.run_steps(3);
+    assert_eq!(draft(&h).as_deref(), Some("Reviewed"), "Undo takes the typing back in A's box");
+}
+
 /// Redo with an added text box open and unchanged reaches the document's waiting Redo, even when
 /// the box's text ends in a space: closing the unchanged box writes nothing, so it can't clear
 /// that Redo first.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
index c22ce087f2..c1acc43fe7 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
@@ -6645,6 +6645,49 @@ fn redo_from_the_menu_is_enabled_for_the_boxs_own_typing() {
     assert_eq!(h.state().views[0].line_editor.as_ref().expect("still open").text, typed, "Redo puts the typing back");
 }
 
+/// Typing in tab A's paragraph, a paragraph opened in tab B, then back to A: Edit ▸ Undo takes
+/// the typing back in A's box. The tabs share one text box, and its history was cleared each time
+/// another tab's box took it, so Undo found no step and closed A's paragraph instead
+/// (skylartaylor's and FredApps's review of 08ec1db7).
+#[test]
+fn undo_after_a_round_trip_through_another_tab_takes_back_the_typing() {
+    let mut h = harness(1, |app| {
+        app.open_bytes("copy.pdf", None, fixture(1)).expect("the copy opens");
+    });
+    let open_in = |h: &mut Harness<'static, PdfCraftApp>, tab: usize| {
+        h.state_mut().active = Some(tab);
+        h.run_steps(2);
+        if h.state().views[tab].line_editor.is_none() {
+            assert!(h.state_mut().execute("edit.edit_text"));
+            h.run_steps(2);
+        }
+        let r = h.state().views[tab].page_screen_rect(0).expect("on screen");
+        click_at(h, egui::pos2(r.left() + 40.0 / 200.0 * r.width(), r.top() + (300.0 - 158.0) / 300.0 * r.height()));
+        assert!(h.state().views[tab].line_editor.is_some(), "the paragraph opens for typing");
+    };
+    open_in(&mut h, 0);
+    h.get_by_label("Bold").click();
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    h.key_press_modifiers(Modifiers::COMMAND, Key::Z);
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    open_in(&mut h, 0);
+    let original = h.state().views[0].line_editor.as_ref().unwrap().text.clone();
+    h.key_press_modifiers(Modifiers::COMMAND, Key::End);
+    h.event(egui::Event::Text(" more".into()));
+    h.run_steps(2);
+    assert!(h.state().views[0].line_editor.as_ref().unwrap().text.ends_with(" more"));
+    open_in(&mut h, 1);
+    h.state_mut().active = Some(0);
+    h.run_steps(3);
+    assert!(h.state().views[0].line_editor.is_some(), "A's paragraph is still open after the round trip");
+    assert!(h.state_mut().execute("edit.undo"), "Undo is enabled");
+    h.run_steps(3);
+    let s = h.state();
+    let ed = s.views[0].line_editor.as_ref().expect("the box stays open: Undo takes back the typing");
+    assert_eq!(ed.text, original, "the typing is taken back in the box");
+    assert_eq!(s.session.get(s.views[0].id).unwrap().can_redo(), Some("Edit text"), "the document's Redo still waits");
+}
+
 /// Two copies of a document, the same paragraph open in each. The paragraph boxes share one text
 /// box, and so one Undo history: a box opened on the same text as another tab's didn't clear it.
 /// Typing in one tab, taken back with Undo, then came back with Redo in the other tab.