Putting version families in order: which draft came first

Jun 30, 2026

AI Generated ✨

Documentor

Documentor already groups files that are revisions of one another; now it works out their order too – reading the sequence from each document's own revision history, flagging genuine forks, recognising identical copies as the same version, and honestly saying 'unknown' rather than guessing when there is no signal to go on.

  • For Microsoft Office documents, Documentor reads the revision history a file accumulates as it is edited and reconstructs the sequence – earliest draft to latest – showing a numbered order wherever the history makes it clear.
  • Confidence is shown honestly: when two revisions are near-identical rather than a clean progression the order is marked 'likely' rather than asserted, a document edited in two parallel directions is shown as branched instead of flattened into a false line, and files with no ordering signal are left 'unknown' rather than guessed.
  • Files that share identical revision history are recognised as the same version saved in more than one place – co-equal copies, not a sequence – and labelled as such, so they are not forced into an order that does not exist.
  • A new Merge action lets you combine families that were split apart, and the primary copy of each version is now chosen the same way duplicate copies are resolved – your kept or starred copy, otherwise the simplest-named one.