Google Morning!
Last week, we talked about sharing. This week is a little tutorial on how to see revisions made to a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide after sharing with others.
If you’re collaborating with several people on a single file, it can be difficult to pinpoint who made certain changes and when. Use revision history in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to see all the updates to your file.
Examples
· Keep track of changes to important team documents.
· Identify each change and its owner.
· Revert back to previous versions if mistakes are made.
To see or revert to an earlier version
1. In Drive, open your file.
2. From Docs, Sheets, or Slides, select File > See revision history.
3. Click a timestamp to see a previous version of the file. Below the timestamp, you’ll see:
Names of people who edited the document.
A color next to each person’s name. The edits they made appear in that color.
4. Click Restore this revision to make it the active version.
Note: You need Owner or Can edit access to see the revision history.
This is also useful for students. If you as a teacher would like to see who made revisions to a file, use the same process as above. Just remember that you need to have the students share their files with you and give you editing privileges. When they do this, you can also type your comments for them in the same file!
As always, to see a video on the topic, CLICK HERE.