Re: A question for authors: Are there word doc formats that can be versioned (i.e. SVN) and worked on collaboratively?

"Shawn A. Van Ness" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.off-topic
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If you're looking for an edit-merge-commit style of workflow..  Word 2007
has a "Combine Revisions from Multiple Authors" feature.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102341321033.aspx#Combining

The UI to load the 2 docs into the compare/combine view is a little
cumbersome... not sure if there's a cmd line way to bring up the 2 docs.
-S


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Mark Levison <mark-r0EpITdELjZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

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> I'm starting to work on a book writing project with at least one other
> co-author. I'm hoping to find tools that are better than token passing -
> i.e. emailing the files back and forth.
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> I hoped .docx would be useful but there is so much binary gunk in there
> that I can't read them and so can't read the differences.
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> Any other approaches?
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> Cheers
> Mark
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