The Google Docs backup trick everybody should know

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Google Docs' version history is a safety net to recover old drafts, track changes, and undo rewrite regrets. Use it to roll back unwanted changes when a rewrite goes wrong or something important disappears. Anyone who frequently writes documents has had that moment where a big edit goes sideways. So what do you do when you've deleted a paragraph you needed, rewrote half a document only to regret the whole thing, or opened a shared file and scratched your head, wondering who changed what? There's no need to freak out.