There are two ways to recover previous versions of your Pages, Numbers, or Keynotes documents. Every time you save changes to a document, iWork archives a copy that you can recover at a later date. It has many advantages, but the most notable one for the current discussion is its built-in versioning. There are lots of reasons to use iWork instead of Microsoft Office.
IWork Lets You Browse All Versions of Your Documents We'll look at a few of them here, and then share suggestions for avoiding the problem in the first place.
But if you're on a Mac, you have a few options for recovering your previous Word, Pages, or Google Docs documents. When you discover that you overwrote an important document, your first reaction is likely to panic.