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Using document version history

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Using document version history

As an end-user, version history is a very important feature of SharePoint. Version history contains information about when the item or file was changed, who changed it and why, if comments were entered? A great example of when version history can come in handy is when sending the file out to a large group of people for their edits and feedback. As you approach the review deadline, you can check the version history at any time to see who's checked it out and who's made edits to the file. Let's look at an example here in this Document Library. Let me go ahead and select this file by clicking in the check box to the left of its icon and then move to the down arrow. Here I will select Version History. As you can see, within this Version History dialog box there are six versions associated with this file. Version 1 here on the bottom, all the way up to Version 6. In the column next to it, you can see all the modified dates which represent the date that those versions were created. At the…

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