![]() ![]() Move your cursor over it and it’ll be a bit more apparent:Īhhh. Look closely and you’ll realize it’s underlined. Notice what I’ve highlighted in that image: “Last edit was on July 16”. When I look at a document we’ve been working on for a few weeks, here’s how it looks: We use Google Docs for all the reasons listed herein. I’ve been working on developing a new course for the University of Denver, collaborating with a colleague. Presto! VIEWING VERSION HISTORY IN GOOGLE DOCS This is good because it also means that Docs is automatically making backup copies as part of the process, so if you ever accidentally delete everything, you can jump back to the previous version and restore it. This does take disk or storage space, of course, but nowadays even a novel is going to be a tiny fraction of the space of a modern hard drive or SSD. Instead of sending a doc from person to person without any way to know who fixed a spelling gaffe or added that awful paragraph near the end, revision tracking lets you keep and peruse all versions of a document. That means even if it’s just you rewriting and editing, you can always see what you’ve changed over time and back up to previous versions if your deletion bonanza proved a misbegotten inspiration! There’s even a clue whenever you look at a document, though I’m not sure how many people realize you can click on it…īefore we get there, though, I will just say as a writer and collaborator that shared document editing is great. ![]() Google doesn’t really advertise the fact, but every document and file you have in Google Docs has revision tracking enabled by default. ![]()
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