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The company I work for recently settled on Office for document management and I agree with you, the collaboration part of Office seems to be in it's infancy. I

• sokoloff 6y ago
  Word Online with online commenting and discussion features is a pretty slick workflow for virtual, document-based meetings though. I considered trying to get us to standardize on LaTeX and git for document management, but delayed that decision in favor of "get started with Word first and get people used to writing at all". Once we went forced-remote and started using the online comment features, I don't see an equivalently accessible means to do that in tex.
  • tikwidd 6y ago
    Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor that supports multiple collaborators and comments.
    • warkdarrior 6y ago
      Overleaf's commenting feature is decades behind Microsoft's. In online Word you can attach comments to anything, you can have comment threads, you can version comments, you can accept or reject edits and comments, etc.
• montalbano 6y ago
  I can recommend Overleaf. I used it for my PhD thesis and multiple collaborative scientific papers.
• daturkel 6y ago
  Overleaf is very unlikely to be a good drop-in replacement for MS Office for your company because Word and LaTeX are very different tools (with different goals and different audiences in mind). The former is a user-friendly word processor and the latter is a fairly complex plaintext-based document preparation/typesetting tool. I doubt that most offices would benefit from teaching their employees that instead of just hitting control-B to bold some text, they should now do \textbf{foo}, or that quotes should now be types ``like this''. If you need the huge array of features (which is typically only the case in the context of academic publishing), then it's worth making the investment to learn. But for 99% of corporate documents, Word likely can do what you need with much less pain.