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Purpose

A How-to on reverting a document.

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Note

Google Drive will only keep versions up to 30 days.


Requirements

  • Manager or Content Manager Permissions on the Team Shared Drive
  • Accessing on Google Drive with UCSB Connect

Process

First, log onto your UCSB Connect Account on a web browser (Preferably Chrome)

Click on the icon in the upper right hand corner.

Click on

Go into the Team Shared Drive and find the file you need to revert, then right-click on it to get the following menu:

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On the right, you can click on the ⋮on the version of the document you may want to revert back to.

This should give you options of downloading the version in question, keeping it or deleting that version it.

Downloading will allow you to get the copy it has on file so you can compare.

Reverting Google Docs, Sheets or Slides within

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Shared Drive

For Google Documents, Sheets and Slides, you have to open the document itself and look next to where it says Help.

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Otherwise, on the right, you can click on the ⋮and be able to either Name the version for ease of remembrance, or Make a copy of it if you want to do a separate version of the document.