Excel version control
Version control for Excel your team will keep using
The end of final_v2_FINAL.xlsx. SheetDelta gives critical workbooks a change history at cell level: who changed what, review and sign-off, by watching the files your team already keeps.
“Version control for Excel” usually means a folder full of guesses
The model gets shared, six people edit it, and one morning the result no longer makes sense.
A formula is now a hard-coded number and nobody remembers touching it. The “system” is a
pile of files named final,
final_v2, and
final_v2_reallyfinal.xlsx, plus whatever got
emailed around. Everyone knows it’s fragile; nobody has time to migrate off Excel.
You don’t need to move off Excel. You need the review process around it to grow up.
What version control has to give a finance team
A real history of changes
Every saved version is compared against the last, so the history says what changed instead of listing timestamps.
Who changed what
Authorship from SharePoint, attached to each change. “Who set this to a hard-coded number?” finally has an answer.
Review before it’s trusted
Comment on the exact cell, request changes and require sign-off, on the workbooks where a mistake is expensive.
Watches your files
No “remember to upload.” SheetDelta sees each new version in SharePoint automatically.
A record you can hand over
Versions, changes, comments and approvals, printable as a one-page review record when finance, risk or an auditor asks.
It can carry two people’s work together
Combine three-way-merges against the common ancestor on the hosted platform, proposing each change grouped by what it affects and writing nothing until you approve the group.
How the options compare
Here is where each approach lands on the things a finance team runs into.
| SharePoint history | Git / Git LFS | SheetDelta | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cell & formula-level comparison | — | Binary only | |
| See who changed each value | File-level | Commit author | |
| No new tool for finance to learn | — | ||
| Review & sign-off | — | Text PRs only | |
| Exportable audit trail | — | — | |
| Works on .xlsx natively | — | ||
| Merge two divergent versions | — | — | Combine, group by group |
Git is excellent for developer-owned workbooks; SharePoint is a great backup. SheetDelta adds the cell-level comparison, review, and audit layer that neither provides.
Four people, one workbook, no “final-v2”
Every change to a model, who owns it, what state it is in and who has to act next, instead of a folder of near-identical copies and a thread asking which one is current.
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Every change to one model, and who it waits on. Four people editing the same workbook, without four copies called final-v2. Each change says whose it is, what state it is in, and who has to act next. One of them needs refreshing, because the published model moved underneath it.
Screenshots of the hosted platform. The workbook is our demo model, and no customer data appears anywhere on this site.
Frequently asked questions
Is this “version control” like Git, with branching and merging?
Do we have to put our files in Git?
How is this different from SharePoint version history?
Can we control who can approve changes?
Give your critical workbooks a memory
Connect a SharePoint library and watch the next change become a reviewable, signed-off, audited event.
