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Thank you. I regularly need to side-by-side compare word document versions. I still have no idea why MS doesn't just offer this functionality.
It's definitely built-in. You just haven't found it yet. ;)
I NEED THIS FOR EXCEL! There's been a few discussions about Excel on HN recently and it's such a major tool in so many organizations and keeping track of changes is a nightmare. Here's a classic example: - Budgeting model for company with ~10 employees and 8 departments. Model has 30 or so sheets. Tracks all assumptions on the revenue and expense sides. Great model, built well, works excellently. - CFO goes in and ch…
[1] http://www.softinterface.com/MD/Document-Comparison-Software...
Word already has this capability through their track changes feature. You can even use it to open two documents and see a third document showing what has changed. How does Draftable improve on what Word has been offering for years?
A few ways. 1. People seem to find side-by-side diffs easier to read than the Track Changes compare functionality built into Word, because the old and new versions don’t get mashed together. 2. Usability. Draftable is easier to use than the inbuilt functionality. (You’d be surprised how many people don’t even realize that Word can compare documents.) 3. You get more control over Track Changes and the comparisons. For…
But you're right, it's really hard to use, and almost no one knows it exists.
I NEED THIS FOR EXCEL! There's been a few discussions about Excel on HN recently and it's such a major tool in so many organizations and keeping track of changes is a nightmare. Here's a classic example: - Budgeting model for company with ~10 employees and 8 departments. Model has 30 or so sheets. Tracks all assumptions on the revenue and expense sides. Great model, built well, works excellently. - CFO goes in and ch…
http://excel-diff.florencesoft.com/ http://www.exceldiff.com/ http://www.suntrap-systems.com/ExcelDiff/
Are you sure neither would work for you?
Then we saw that it was Windows-only.
The publishing industry runs on Macs. Please, develop for OS X. I can't think of a single person in publishing who wouldn't happily pay for this right now.
Thank you. I regularly need to side-by-side compare word document versions. I still have no idea why MS doesn't just offer this functionality.
It's definitely built-in. You just haven't found it yet. ;)
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Cool. We're big fans of what you're doing at DocumentCloud. I originally got into this because I wanted a similar tool for LaTeX (my background is in physics), but after understanding how bad the existing version control tools for business documents were, we just had to start there.
Thanks, you've picked an interesting niche. Versioning text is an interesting subject, and there appear to be a bunch of tools that are teasing at the problem (many of which get discussed on the Versioned Writing google group), but none of them have really gotten things right yet. A lot of folks have been taking Github as an inspiration, and it's been cool to see what people pick and choose out of the experience.
I NEED THIS FOR EXCEL! There's been a few discussions about Excel on HN recently and it's such a major tool in so many organizations and keeping track of changes is a nightmare. Here's a classic example: - Budgeting model for company with ~10 employees and 8 departments. Model has 30 or so sheets. Tracks all assumptions on the revenue and expense sides. Great model, built well, works excellently. - CFO goes in and ch…
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Thanks, you've picked an interesting niche. Versioning text is an interesting subject, and there appear to be a bunch of tools that are teasing at the problem (many of which get discussed on the Versioned Writing google group), but none of them have really gotten things right yet. A lot of folks have been taking Github as an inspiration, and it's been cool to see what people pick and choose out of the experience.
Hey, can you point me to this Google Group? This is a topic I've been very interested in for many years now. I actually wrote this library ( https://github.com/zencephalon/Tactful_Tokenizer ) for sentence tokenization so that I could get Git to work across of sentences instead of lines.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/versioned...