I use Word all the time to do change-tracking and formatting, with merging. Seems to work ok.
It does seem to have got better, I don't really have any experience of it, so it's likely it works better than I fear. Partly, even if it works technically, there still seems to be a big problem with people who don't, or can't, use it correctly, and documents with inconsistent versions, etc, etc getting emailed around... Partly, there seem to be lots of solutions for storing documents recording who changed what (like git for documents), but I've never heard anyone using one without swearing...
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Date: 2014-12-07 04:34 pm (UTC)It does seem to have got better, I don't really have any experience of it, so it's likely it works better than I fear. Partly, even if it works technically, there still seems to be a big problem with people who don't, or can't, use it correctly, and documents with inconsistent versions, etc, etc getting emailed around... Partly, there seem to be lots of solutions for storing documents recording who changed what (like git for documents), but I've never heard anyone using one without swearing...