 Hi, everyone. In this video, we're going to be looking at how to restore a previous version of a file in SharePoint Online in Office 365. My name is Ben Williams. I work at Tech Impact. So, if we want to access the version history for this document that we have here, we can do that in a multitude of ways. So, we have this More button up here where we can get to our version history. We can get to all these same options by right-clicking on a file. And then we do also have up in the top left two tabs for working with our files on our document library. So, if we go to that Files tab, we have Version History under Manage here. And if we click on that, it'll show us all the different versions we have of this file. Pretty much SharePoint considers something a separate version. When you open the file up, make changes to it. Save those changes and close the file. So, within here, you'll notice that I have a comment in here. Changes were made. But if I did want to go back to a previous version, one, I can open up and view this version of the file by clicking on the date and time that we have here for that modified date. And then, if that is the version that I would like to go with, I want to make this the most recent version of the file. Maybe the file took a bad path. People were making changes that we didn't really want to see. So, if I did want to view the contents of one of these older versions, say version 2.0 here, click on our date and time here to do that. And it will just open up in your local copy of Office, whether that's Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. But when we open this up, we'll be able to see a read-only preview of the contents of this file. We do have some options up at the top here as well when we do this. So, I can compare this version that I just opened up, version 2.0, to the latest version of this file, which would be version 4.0. Or I can actually just immediately go ahead and restore this older version to be the most recent version, in which case we would have version 5.0 with the contents that we see here. When I click on compare, this is actually a very cool feature in Office. It's kind of like reverse track changes. So, we have the original document in the right corner here. This is actually the most recent version of this file, the one that everyone's been working on. In the bottom right here, we have the revised document or the backup version. And this is actually that older version that we just opened up, version 2.0, and the contents of that version. And then in the middle, we have this compared document. So, it's going to show us sort of the differences between the newest version that we have in the top right. Work within this compared document to create a wholly new version that you save as that document. Or you can just work with that older version and restore that. So, we can use this restore option here to do that. Or we can do it from the web, and we'll take a look at that as well. The other way that we can do this is directly from the web. So, I can go back to my document library. I'll go to my version history here. And we have these black boxes that show up. When we click on those, again, restore this or delete it. So, I could make version 3.0 the most recent version of this file by restoring it. So, the way that SharePoint stores these versions, we don't have five times as much storage being taken up here by these different versions. It's only going to be saving the differences between each version. So, the amount of storage that's taken up by your past versions is really, really small. It's almost completely negligible. Really the only time that you would want to delete an older version is if you just didn't want people to have access to that older version. So, thank you so much for watching this video. Again, I'm Ben at Tech Impact and this was version history and how to restore versions in SharePoint Online.