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Is there anything out there, capable of working with MSOffice stuff in a granular and collaborative way? No, but people seem to get work done anyway. It's ver
by dec0dedab0de 6y ago
Is there anything out there, capable of working with MSOffice stuff in a granular and collaborative way?
No, but people seem to get work done anyway. It's very strange to me.
My current and previous jobs are very corporate, so much of the business and IT uses Office products all the time. I somehow managed to set the standard that I don't do it that way. I still have to sometimes, but it's not very often.
The key is to acknowledge that using Office effectively is a difficult skill. It makes management feel smart that they know how to do something technical a developer doesn't. Then it's just a matter of finding and highlighting alternatives. Plain text and/or a wiki covers almost everything in my experience.
- rakoo 6y agoWe used to get work done anyway by sending around zips of the whole repository, but we changed our ways because we had the technical skills to do it. MSOffice users will never be able to write a VCS for documents so they're stuck with whatever the software vendor provides
- hipsterstal1n 6y agoYou must be a blast to interact with socially.
- throwaway9482 6y agoYou got lots showing for yourself too hipsterstal1n