Google docs introduces ‘Show editors’ feature

Team Udayavani, May 5, 2021, 12:06 PM IST

Google Docs added a ‘Show Editors’ option to easily keep track of who is making what changes in a shared document. The new feature will allow users to select part of the text in a document and see who edited it, making it easier to track edits when multiple collaborators are working on a single document.

Google is rolling out the update in two phases, accounts that opted to be in the Rapid Release domain can already see the changes, and the gradual release domain accounts started receiving it from May 3.

Google announced the update through a blog post and said that Google Docs now gets a ‘Show Editors’ option that will allow users to highlight a piece of text and click on it to see who edited it recently via a dropdown menu, showing the list of editors along with their recent edits and respective timestamps.

The new feature will not have any special admin privileges.

Google announced that the new feature will only be available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus customers. And it will not be accessible for Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers.