Of course, while similar features can be found in Microsoft Word and other competitors, they aren’t branded the same. And they aren’t necessarily housed in the same place either. Making this feature one that comes with a learning curve. That’s exactly what this guide sets out to help with. So if you’re trying to learn how to enable Track Changes or see a Version History in Google Docs — or to share a Docs document — this guide can help. Now, there’s a bit more than our usual how-to guides to go over here. So let’s get started.

Here are all the tools you need to track changes made in Google Docs

As hinted already, there are a number of aspects of this feature that should be understood. That is if you want to really get the most out of them. So we’ll be splitting this guide into three segments explaining document sharing, tracking, and versioning.

Set up sharing so you can restrict access, change permission, and get the most of these tools.

If you’re looking to use these tools for collaboration with others, they become even more powerful. But you’ll need to know how to share a document from Google Docs with other users in collaboration first. Thankfully, that’s easy enough to accomplish. And, in fact, this is how you can restrict not only who can see the document. But also what they can do with it.

Suggestion Mode is akin to Microsoft Word’s “Track Changes”

Of course, you can also use a mode that’s similar to Microsoft Word’s “Track Changes” mode. Which Google Docs calls “Suggestion Mode” — allowing you to better collaborate and track what changes are made. As well as who made the changes and their reasons for implementing the change. Here we’ll cover that mode. It’s also worth noting that this works similarly for Android too, although some experimentation will be required beyond entering the mode. Since there are some slight UI differences.

Or you can turn on “Version History” to see changes made over time to a document

Now that you’re collaborating or starting to track changes, you can better see the overall impact of that using the Google Docs Version History tool. This will show you what changes have been made over time and with each save.

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