Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
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Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
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Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#2So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#3So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
Can't use Google Docs offline for one
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#4So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
Word is tons more powerful than Google Docs, has add-ins, way more formatting and styling. In my mind, Google Doc is not a direct competitor to Word when it comes to professional editing and writing.
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#5So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
I've never used this, but I intend on checking it out. Just from the website, it seems it brings all the benefits of git like branching, merging, etc whereas Google docs revision history is strictly linear.
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#6Nice to see this happening! I wrote about "Git for everyone" in Idea Dump 6 in 2012.
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#7This is actually a great idea, but not a new one. See this TED talk from 2012 [1]. I hope this kind of thing is integrated into more products and services
[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_...
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#8So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
From the article
There is a lot of overlap here with the authoring process of a Word document. You don’t necessarily want the real-time coauthoring experience offered by Microsoft SharePoint or Google Docs., this can inhibit your ability to determine who is responsible for specific changes to content. Branching offers a much clearer audit trail of changes. Like with code, tags can be added to signify a minor or major version of a document is ready to be published.
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#9So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
Too many more features, fonts, style, customization etc....plus lots if companies already use it for everything, may not want to swtich to google.
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#10Took me a while of reading here to realise, there's no git here. This is a seperate thing that cannot be integrated with your existing stuff, if you're already using Git.
I'd like to have the option of Word documents in Git but I don't want a whole other system just for the special snowflake that is Word as I'm already using Git for managing LaTeX documents and doing that entirely on my own infra.