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'Revert to' menu on Word for Mac 2011

Anonymous
2016-07-06T15:38:02+00:00

Hi,

I want to restore previous versions of a word document on Mac. I was told to open the document, go to File, and choose 'Revert to' menu. However, I could not find that menu on my Mac. Does anyone face the same problem? Would be grateful if someone could help me with this.

Thanks,

Megan

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  1. John Korchok 223.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2016-07-06T16:00:39+00:00

    No version of Word has a Revert to menu choice. Word 2016 for Mac has File>Restore, which may be what they were thinking of. Word 2011 doesn't have that command. Here is Microsoft's page about recovering files in Office 2011: Automatically save and recover files

    If you set up Time Machine on your Mac, that can be very useful for accessing earlier copies of a file.

    When I think I might need access to an earlier version in the future, I use File>Save As and rename the file with an incrementing number or date.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-16T17:12:25+00:00

    What does the File > Restore option in Word for Mac 2016 do?

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  2. John Korchok 223.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2016-11-16T20:59:45+00:00

    File>Restore has 2 subcommands:

    1. Restore to Last Saved discards all changes to the file made since the last save. There is a dialog that warns you before it actually does this.
    2. View Version History Online is for users of SharePoint or OneDrive for Business storage. This allows any user in a collaborative document stored on one of those to view the version history of changes.
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