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View Previous Excel Spreadsheet Version in SharePoint Online without Restoring
Due to the new AutoSave option in Excel (which I've turned off by default) my colleagues are inadvertently making changes to Excel spreadsheets that they're essentially only trying to review. My gue...
A little late to the party but as I had similar problem and found only this solution I think I'll say how I managed to get the old version (without messing up the version history of the original one). There is an option on SharePoint to use it in "Classic Experience" mode. In this mode you can access version history and actually download the old version by using 'save as' or 'open in new tab' option (really similar how it's described in this really old thread: https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/29008/how-do-i-view-the-older-version-of-the-document-without-restoring).