Twice this week and countless times in the past, I’ve relied on one of the most powerful features of Google Docs… file revision history. This feature lets you:
- view every edit that has occurred in all Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations, including the date/time of every edit in every file and the editors’ names,
- highlights those edits and deletions for easy identification, and
- enables you to restore any document to an earlier state at any point in the process.
This week I helped someone who had overwritten a document with new info go back into the file history to find the original data and then copy that data into a new file without affecting the current version, and I was able to restore a document to an earlier state before a block of important data had been accidentally deleted. Revision history is built-in to Google Docs and requires no additional actions on the part of the users… all edits are automatically saved and accessible. Here’s a tutorial which I found this morning on the web which will help explain how to use this critical feature: http://goo.gl/wOS7Un
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