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with Mac os10 lion you get autosave inversions two new features that are going to save you a lot of trouble when it comes to editing documents with autosave inversions you don't have to worry about losing any unsaved work let's open Tek set it to show you how it works whenever you make a new document you only have to save it once just do the usual file save and give it a name that's the last time you'll have to do that because from now on text edit will periodically save changes as you make them once you make an edit you'll see edited show up at the top bar of the file click it and you'll see a little menu lock lets you lock the file so that no more changes can be made it's useful if you want to create a template or just prevent your dog from being changed if it is a template you can use duplicate in this menu to quickly create and open a copy of that file now if you're editing the document and realize you want to get it back to the way it was when you opened it click edit it and hit revert to last saved version below that option is browse all versions now the autosave backs up all your changes you can browse all versions of a document click browse all versions to see how it works on the left is the current version and on the right is where you browse all previous versions along the side is a visual timeline of the different versions with their time stamp just click the version you want to revert to and hit restore you can always go forward or backwards in time by going back to browse all versions right now only a few apple-branded apps like text edit and I work support autosave inversions but hopefully other apps will be updated to incorporate these features if you have any more questions feel free to ask me on my facebook page and visit how to cnet.com for more videos like this for a cnet I'm Sharon Vaknin and i'll see you on the interwebs