Reverse "Outline" command

Hi there.
I accidentally pressed the key combination for "Outlines"
(ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+O) and now everything in the opened fla file is
displayed just as an outline. Clicking the square icon on top of
the layers does nothing. Does anyone have an ideea how to reverse
this?
Thanks.

View>Preview Mode>Full
That should fix it.

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