Hi everyone. In this video we're gonna look at two things. One's called version history and one's called history. Yes, very similar, but they do different jobs  and one's more awesomer than the other. Let's jump in and look at the differences. We'll start with the best one version, history.

Um, let's make a change so you don't have this document. I can't give it to you because it needs to be a cloud  document for this to actually work. So it's no, can't share any exercise files. So just watch me. Um, I've got a bit of type,  let's change it to something else that looks very different. Okay, gonna hit save.

So this first of all is saved to the cloud,  not to my desktop. A so that's one thing we need to have for version history. And what it does for us is under file,  there's this magic thing, version history, okay? And what it's done is today, can you see here? It's saved all the versions that I've been working through. So I opened it a little while ago to get ready  for this lesson, and that's how I opened it.

And I did this to it, and then I  did this to it and this and this. Okay? So it's like a, it's a  history, it's a version history, okay? And you can kind of see, see my text there. It's a little hard to see, but old font,  new font is the editor zoom in. Okay?

So I can go back to it. And the cool thing about it's, I can go, oh, I can go back  to this and say, actually, see here I am going  to revert to this version. And it goes back to that. It's kind of like hitting undo. The cool thing about it though is  that you can record these things forever. Let's say I'm about to make some changes.

And instead of doing a save as, that's  what people mostly do, right? They're like, okay, I am gonna mess with, um, you know, mess  with this font or this logo here,  and I'm gonna change the colors, but  I don't wanna wreck my original. So you do a file save as,  and you say V two, V three V through final, final,  final, final, final two. Okay? To get round that you have  to save it to the cloud, okay? But what you can do is you can say, actually right now,  okay, I'm going to, at this right here,  when I've make it a change, I'm gonna say,  let's bookmark this version, okay?

And let's give it a name, edit the version info,  and I'm gonna say maybe client amends and put in the date  or the time, or let's call this one font change. And the cool thing about that is  that you can add more information, but there it is there. And the cool thing about it is  that that will be there forever. I can close this down, come back to it, file open  and go to my cloud documents. There it is there. And later on there it is there.

Client means I can go back to it. And what you'll notice is I found an old file  because it actually had from 2020  some bookmarks, poo brown version. I should have checked this first. Anyway,  let's have a look at the Poo brown version. There it is. You can kinda see it.

There, there was a version of that color, okay? And I can say let's, uh, revert to this, um, version of it  and I can jump back and go, all right, this is  before I made those changes. And that is the really ugly colored version of it. Okay? I think I was pulling colors out of that, that thing there. So you can jump back  and instead of different files,  they're just different versions.

And I can say, actually, I don't want that. I'm gonna go back to this current one. I'm gonna revert back to the one that we just did. Now it's a great way of jumping back and forth. There you go, I'm back. Um, so things to note about it is  that, um, what happens is  you'll kind of see it at the bottom.

So end of history versions will expire after 30 days. You're like, oh, can't use this then, except  The ones marked that you wanna keep. So basically it's gonna keep, every time you do a change,  it's gonna appear in this. So like this change here, I'm not sure  what I did here, okay? But it's like was not essential. It might be fun to go back to it, but it's not essential.

So, um, what you need  to do is like when you are making a decision that you want  to like, it's a fork in the road, okay? And you want to save it, all you need to do is go,  all right, let's go through  and say let's, I ended up, um, deleting all of this, right? I'll gotta get rid of it. Close down mark versions. There's today. So this is the  one, I just did this thing, right?

I'm gonna hit save and I'm gonna say you,  I would like see this little mark version here. If I click on that mark version  and give it a name, this is when I deleted all that stuff. Um, now that won't go away, okay? That'll stay forever. I'll be opening up this file in another like, uh, 10 years  and it'll say hopefully not the poo brown,  it'll appear in this marked version here. Deleted all stuff, amend font change and all of these.

Okay? So just give a little um, tick on this, uh,  little bookmark thing for it to remain forever. Some cool things about it is you might  be using this quite a lot. Um, and let's say I click on brown, you can search  and it'll give you the versions that might be there. You can filter them, okay? There's a few different things you can do in here.

It's super handy. Now, uh, one thing is you might have  to educate whoever you're working with to let them know  that there are different versions in the version  history they can roll back to. Just think next time you're gonna go file save as and save. Another version is you can just make sure it's a cloud  document and hit the little uh,  mark, check mark thing there. Okay? If you're not too comfortable with cloud docs,  it's this one here, which if I go to, uh,  this document here, it's called history.

I edit it to your exercise files for no real reason. Um, what ends up happening is we can go to file  and if I go to the um, version history, you'll notice  that there is no version history for this, okay? Because it's not a cloud document to know. It's not a cloud document. This one's called uh, dot ai  and wasn't in the cloud  'cause it's in your exercise files, it's on your hard drive. Whereas this one here has a big shiny cloud in front of it.

It's say, I would want to enable version history. Okay? I go to file and I go to save As,  and I'm gonna say save to the cloud. Okay? PC is slightly different. It's looks, it's in a similar position.

And now when I add this to the cloud, okay,  this thing will start there. There, okay, I got my first history and this starts working. So it has to be a cloud doc. If you're on the fence on cloud docs,  you might have a reason, okay? I don't, I love cloud documents. I don't in this course mean it's just so much easier  to share class files with you in a zip file.

Um, but everything that I do  professionally goes into the cloud. So easy to share. There's so much storage  and there's so many perks around cloud docs. So there you go. Now we talked about history. So there's version history  and there's a completely other nother document  that says history.

You're like, huh, okay. So they're very similar. They're capturing what you are doing, okay? Version history often captures groups  of things you've done, okay? This captures every last little detail, uh, new paste,  clear paste scale. That's what I've done.

Watch. If I move it,  move it and move it and move it. Okay? It adds them all in there. Now this is handy. It's a visual way of seeing the undo.

So the perks for it is that it works  with, let's go to history. The original file, so this is the non-cloud one is  that it works with um, non-cloud based documents. The problem is, is as soon as I close this watch you,  you scale, you, I'm gonna do a save, okay? And what ends up happening is I've got it all. It's non-cloud. If I close it and then go  and reopen it, okay?

You'll notice that the history is cleared out. So it's only while you're working  and I've wrecked this, okay? So there's no going back. This came first, this is better and came second. This is just a visual kind of representation  of the undo redo options. This one here, vision, history, cloud, document dependent,  but has a lot of perks.

It's gotta remember to flag the ones you want to keep,  otherwise they disappear after 30 days. It's handy as well. Even if you don't use it,  it's just handy to know that, have you ever done it? You're saved a document and you're like, oh, I forgot  to do the thing and you've closed it  and you realize your undos are all gone, right? There's no edit undo, and you're like, oh, there's no edit. Undo, okay?

If you get to that point,  open up version history. If it's a cloud document and oh,  it'll be in there, save me a couple of times. So that is super useful to know. Alright, that is it. Version history versus history. That will be it for this video.

Alright, I'll see you the next one.