CS4 Crop Tool Not Holding Settings

In older versions of PhotoShop you could remove just one measurement in the crop tool options (height, width, resolution) and the rest would stay. In CS 4 if we delete one measurement all the rest go away too. Is there a way around this? For instance I have my measurements set for a 12 pica wide by 8 pica tall photo with a resolution of 200. If I decided that I don't care about the height of the photo, but I do want it to be 12 picas wide, in older versions I could simply remove the 8 in the height box. In CS4 if I do that I lose all my other measurements too. Thanks for any help.

Okay found it there was clear button on the second line at the top- I was thinking it was a drop down menu

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