Creators and editors of a Dropbox Paper doc can:
Users with only commenting or viewing permissions can't restore changes or unresolve comments. To restore older versions of other files in your Dropbox account, such as PDFs and Word docs, learn how to return to an older version of a file.
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How to see and restore previous versions of a Paper doc
Before you begin, note that if you restore a previous version of your Paper doc, any more recent versions are deleted from version history. This means that once you restore an older version, you can’t return to a more recent version.
You can undo a restoration as long as the doc wasn’t edited after it was restored (by you or anyone else). Once any edits are made, you lose the option to undo, so make sure the version you restored is the version you want before you make any changes to it.
To restore a previous version of a Dropbox Paper doc:
- Open a Paper doc.
- Click the “…” (ellipsis) icon.
- Click Doc history.
- Under the Doc changes tab, find the list of previous edits.
- Click the version you’d like to restore and click Roll back to this version. Your file will open in full screen.
- Click Roll back to this version at the top right. The same file will get replaced by the older version, so its name will stay the same.
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