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Were you using it on Linux or something? Or maybe with very large documents? I use it every day and really haven’t had slowness issues, even when running via P

by D13Fd 5y ago

Were you using it on Linux or something? Or maybe with very large documents? I use it every day and really haven’t had slowness issues, even when running via Parallels on the Mac side. Of course, typically my docs are <100 pages and light on images. I have seen undo history go away when edits collide with multiple users, but that’s really the only way it could work. And you can still view old versions of the doc if you need to retrieve/restore something. MS Word as a whole is definitely very far from flawless, but it’s still better than the alternatives I’ve seen, and it’s extremely entrenched. That’s why it’s hard to see “git for office docs”succeeding.

CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
>Were you using it on Linux or something? Or maybe with very large documents ~250 pages, ~100 images, not something I expect a modern computer to struggle with. We used the web version on Linux sometimes, but I think it also happened when we didn't. >I have seen undo history go away when edits collide with multiple users, but that’s really the only way it could work. And you can still view old versions of the doc if you need to retrieve/restore something. The other way is like git does it, manual merging and conflict resolving. I don't think there's a way around that once you work with enough people together on a file.
- D13Fd 5y ago
  That makes sense, although obviously the downside to a manual check-in/merge process is that it greatly slows down the editing flow. Personally for the kinds of documents I work on, I'd rather risk losing my undo history than have to deal with manually merging changes from multiple users. Plus, without real-time concurrent editing, the changes are much more likely to conflict.