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Version handling is built into Office 365, and many comments here indicate it's even in the relatively crappy Google Docs, but I'm sure there's a market for pre

by juped 7y ago

Version handling is built into Office 365, and many comments here indicate it's even in the relatively crappy Google Docs, but I'm sure there's a market for pretending it isn't and selling incredibly shitty half-baked attempts as a B2B SaaS offering (this is not a sarcastic "I'm sure", I know about this market space and it disgusts me on a deep level)

nihonde 7y ago
I’m a lawyer who uses Word’s track changes as an integral component of my work. I haven’t seen a single meaningful improvement in that feature in 20 years. Right down to the fact that I have to open “compare...” from within a document, but then have to go hunt the same document down in the file system to set it as the original. Don’t get me started on every other reason that Word has failed to innovate on this front. The solution is to dump Office and use text files, if you can get away with it.
- hcurtiss 7y ago
  What’s wild to me is that a third-party product, Workshare Compare, actually does a better job of this than Microsoft does with its own product. Workshare is used widely in the AmLaw 100.
  - juped 7y ago
    Some lawtech has value added over stock Office 365 - but not often. I'm very skeptical.
  - nihonde 7y ago
    Also a garbage product IMO. The distance from something like git to Workshare is measured in light years.
    - hcurtiss 7y ago
      I use Workshare several times a day, every day. Most transactional attorneys do. I find it works well for its intended purpose.
- juped 7y ago
  Use Office 365 (i.e., save your document to onedrive or a sharepoint library) - that's where the version control takes place.
cpach 7y ago
We use Office 365 at my workplace and I have found the version handling to be lacking. AFAIK it can’t diff two versions of a document in a convenient way. Another gripe I have is that it is not, AFAIK, possible to tag/name versions.
- juped 7y ago
  Wrong and correct, respectively (the best you get is the ability to use major/minor numbering).

by juped 7y ago

nihonde 7y ago

I’m a lawyer who uses Word’s track changes as an integral component of my work. I haven’t seen a single meaningful improvement in that feature in 20 years. Right down to the fact that I have to open “compare...” from within a document, but then have to go hunt the same document down in the file system to set it as the original. Don’t get me started on every other reason that Word has failed to innovate on this front. The solution is to dump Office and use text files, if you can get away with it.

hcurtiss 7y ago
What’s wild to me is that a third-party product, Workshare Compare, actually does a better job of this than Microsoft does with its own product. Workshare is used widely in the AmLaw 100.
- juped 7y ago
  Some lawtech has value added over stock Office 365 - but not often. I'm very skeptical.
- nihonde 7y ago
  Also a garbage product IMO. The distance from something like git to Workshare is measured in light years.
  - hcurtiss 7y ago
    I use Workshare several times a day, every day. Most transactional attorneys do. I find it works well for its intended purpose.
juped 7y ago
Use Office 365 (i.e., save your document to onedrive or a sharepoint library) - that's where the version control takes place.

cpach 7y ago

We use Office 365 at my workplace and I have found the version handling to be lacking. AFAIK it can’t diff two versions of a document in a convenient way. Another gripe I have is that it is not, AFAIK, possible to tag/name versions.

juped 7y ago
Wrong and correct, respectively (the best you get is the ability to use major/minor numbering).