Revisions & Editing (Google)

Revisions & Editing (Google)

With these editing tools, you’ll track comments, save editing history and more.

  1. Color-code comments: You can color-code live comments in Google.

  2. Revision pruning: When you have too many revisions, they’ll automatically collapse, or prune, but can still be viewed in revision history.

  3. Track edits and changes: In Google you can go back and forth between edits that you or collaborators made.

  4. Revision history: View older versions of your document, and choose to "revert to this one" if you choose.

  5. Find and replace: This version of find and replace lets you match cases, match whole words, find previous words, and more.


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