Hand tool and zoom resume

I apologize for this easy looking question, but neither the documentation nor my own tests seem to point me to a clear answer.
I have a waveform graph and I am using the zoom and hand tool on the graph palette.
1. After applying the hand tool, how can I resume to the original graph?
2. I zoom a part of the graph more than one time consecutively, let's say twice. After the secodn zoom, I would like to resume to the result of the first zoom.
The same way in which generally the zoom-in and zoom-out functionalities work.
On the graph palette, the left bottom icon of the zoom functions, offer just the possibility to resume to the initial version of the graph.
I couldn't find a way to achieve an incremental zoom-out as described above?
Is there any?
Thank you!
MG.
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1) Use the Zoom to Fit
2) You will need to programatically make this. When you zoom in, store the X and Y scale data (max and min). You can then make a button to go back to the previous zoom by then setting the scale data with the values you stored.
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