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> So there's one industry that's keeping it. Any others actually NEED Word's advanced functionality? Not being facetious, let's name em. In the Engineering/Con
by elithrar 15y ago
> So there's one industry that's keeping it. Any others actually NEED Word's advanced functionality?
Not being facetious, let's name em.
In the Engineering/Consulting industry we use it often to collaborate on proposals, reports and other documents. Key clients - many of them utilities or energy companies - also prefer Word documents and use Track Changes.
It's very hard to move away from that momentum, partly because you can't use another tool and just export to .doc/.docx due to the format being so arcane.
For what it's worth though, Track Changes is what Word does pretty well. I rarely use it outside of work though, preferring something like Byword on my Mac or just TextEdit.