From the course: Modern Project Management in Microsoft 365

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Managing a project file's versions

Managing a project file's versions

A file such as an Excel workbook, a Word document, or a PowerPoint presentation that has changes being made by you and/or other project members, it has versions that are automatically being saved. And to see a file's version history, there's a couple of things for you to know. If you're the person that created this file in your OneDrive document library, you're the owner of the file and you manage the versions. If you share that OneDrive file with other project members, they are not able to access those versions or manage those versions because they do not own the file. If you think about files that you work on in a SharePoint document library, or if you're working in a team channel knowing that those are saved in a SharePoint site document library, that's a little different. The default setting for files there are that they are shared files, the "we" files that we talked about earlier in the course, which means that by default, unless something has been changed, everybody has access…

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