When you're collaborating on a spreadsheet, it helps to keep different versions of the file on hand as you work; this lets you return to a previous version, if necessary. Google Spreadsheets doesn't offer automatic versioning. In fact, as Google saves your changes as you make them, it's a little tricky to move backward through the different iterations of your work. However, there is a trick you can employ to add versioning to your spreadsheets. Here's how it works:
Some users version their work once a day; others do it once an hour; still others do it whenever they add or change anything big in the spreadsheet. How often you save new versions is up to you, but the important thing is to save your work in multiple iterations. This will make it relatively easy to recover a previous version, if necessary. |