View Documents without Triggering Changes

Hi Robert

Thanks for posting in the community! Our Revision History feature is designed to store a new version each time the document is saved. You can navigate these versions more easily by naming each version you would like to access in the future. You can name specific versions on the Revision History by clicking on the three dots to the right of each tile and then typing in a name. You can then choose to see only versions you have named by toggling "Show named versions only".

If anyone else has questions about Revision History you can find an overview in this Help Center article.

Hope this helps!

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I feel like the solution proposed might not fully address the concern.

A contributor to the document may forget to create a new version after changes are made, and those changes end up getting lost in the pretty long revision history that ends up being created when files are saved every few minutes.

It would be great if the document isn’t saved unless you actually change something in it.

Hi ​@Nelson R,

Thank you for responding in this thread! 

I understand your concerns and wanted to provide a few suggestions here:

• Once you have named versions of your document, you can choose to see only those that you have named. To do so, toggle on “Show named versions only” found at the top of the revision tiles. This will help mitigate changes getting lost in the long revision history that is created. 
• You can compare two versions of your document by following these steps:
  • Access revision history.
  • Select one of the versions of your document. 
  • Click the Compare Version button at the bottom of the revision history log.
  • Select the second version of the document you would like to compare. 
  • Click the Compare Selected Versions button at the bottom of the revision history log. The two document versions will then both be visible, so that you can see what changes have been made. There is visual highlighting of high-level differences along with a detailed list of differences. 

Please let me know if you have any additional questions! If you feel the suggestions above don’t currently support your workflow, we appreciate your idea on this post and we’d love it if you could add any additional details or create a new idea and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

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