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How to See Revision History in Word 2007?
Hello, how is it that you view the revision history for a document in Word
2007 (or any Office 2007 product for that matter)? Let's say I make a document, do some work on it and save it. I keep working on it for a few more days but I decide I would like to see what I had originally written in it the first time I saved it, how do I do that? In Google Docs you go to File-See Revision History and you can recall any version of the file ever saved, but I can't seem to find the same functionality in Word 2007. The Track Changes feature seems to be completely unrelated for what it's worth. |
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How to See Revision History in Word 2007?
See the article "How to save a document using a filename that gets
incremented by 1 each time if the filename already exists€¯ at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...edFilename.htm Then use the Compare feature on the Review tab of the ribbon to see the difference between any two revisions of the document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Me@Work" wrote in message ... Hello, how is it that you view the revision history for a document in Word 2007 (or any Office 2007 product for that matter)? Let's say I make a document, do some work on it and save it. I keep working on it for a few more days but I decide I would like to see what I had originally written in it the first time I saved it, how do I do that? In Google Docs you go to File-See Revision History and you can recall any version of the file ever saved, but I can't seem to find the same functionality in Word 2007. The Track Changes feature seems to be completely unrelated for what it's worth. |
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How to See Revision History in Word 2007?
See the article "How to save a document using a filename that gets incremented by 1 each time if the filename already exists€¯ at: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...edFilename.htm Then use the Compare feature on the Review tab of the ribbon to see the difference between any two revisions of the document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Me@Work" wrote in message ... Hello, how is it that you view the revision history for a document in Word 2007 (or any Office 2007 product for that matter)? Let's say I make a document, do some work on it and save it. I keep working on it for a few more days but I decide I would like to see what I had originally written in it the first time I saved it, how do I do that? In Google Docs you go to File-See Revision History and you can recall any version of the file ever saved, but I can't seem to find the same functionality in Word 2007. The Track Changes feature seems to be completely unrelated for what it's worth. |
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How to See Revision History in Word 2007?
Hey Doug, thanks for the tip. Not exactly what I was looking for but close
enough I suppose. Would still be nicer if the revisions could be self contained, seems a bit surprising a program of Word's caliber doesn't have it (at least considering 'inferior' products like Google Docs have it) But thanks. |
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How to See Revision History in Word 2007?
Hey Doug, thanks for the tip. Not exactly what I was looking for but close
enough I suppose. Would still be nicer if the revisions could be self contained, seems a bit surprising a program of Word's caliber doesn't have it (at least considering 'inferior' products like Google Docs have it) But thanks. |
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How to See Revision History in Word 2007?
I could be wrong, but isn't the Google Doc feature just the storing of every
save you make on some Google server? In that case, you just have a bunch of separate files and the revision option is not part of the program but rather of the operating system. Microsoft Windows provides this exact same service through the shadow copy functionality if you have activated it (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...dow-copy.aspx). Yves "Me@Work" wrote in message ... Hey Doug, thanks for the tip. Not exactly what I was looking for but close enough I suppose. Would still be nicer if the revisions could be self contained, seems a bit surprising a program of Word's caliber doesn't have it (at least considering 'inferior' products like Google Docs have it) But thanks. |
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How to See Revision History in Word 2007?
I could be wrong, but isn't the Google Doc feature just the storing of every
save you make on some Google server? In that case, you just have a bunch of separate files and the revision option is not part of the program but rather of the operating system. Microsoft Windows provides this exact same service through the shadow copy functionality if you have activated it (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...dow-copy.aspx). Yves "Me@Work" wrote in message ... Hey Doug, thanks for the tip. Not exactly what I was looking for but close enough I suppose. Would still be nicer if the revisions could be self contained, seems a bit surprising a program of Word's caliber doesn't have it (at least considering 'inferior' products like Google Docs have it) But thanks. |
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