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Originally Posted by toddos
I've never had good luck using Word's change tracking features (for writing software specs, not manuscripts  ) and would much rather rely on CVS, Subversion, Git, etc to manage versions. Of course those work best with plain text documents, which Word docs are not, but HTML docs are plain text ...
(and Word's change tracking plus Sharepoint's built-in version control for Word documents prove that Word can be handled by a version control system, you just need something that understands the format rather than something purpose-built for plain text source code. I suspect there's a niche market out there for this type of software, if someone were interested ...) |
I'd imagine there's a market out there for just about anything.
I'm sure if I was writing software, I'd have something other than Word in my toolbox. Alas, I'm not a coder. I know as little HTML as I can get away with, and that's pretty much it.
My current version of Word has a versioning tool. I haven't really used it much (I've had Office 2010 for less than two weeks now.), but it looks promising.