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Version Control for Microsoft Word

Ben Morris on February 19, 2018

Bringing the features of Git and GitHub to Microsoft Word The short version Simul Documents is a collaboration tool bringing ...
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Júlio Campos

Or you can use SharePoint.

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Ben Morris

SharePoint is a great product and Simul offers direct integration: simuldocs.com/blog/ben-morris/shar...

But SharePoint does not allow users to manage copies, parallel versions such as branching and merging and can become messy when collaborating externally.

Also, the version history of SharePoint simply shows that a document has changed and does not do a diff or comparison for you.

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Deukhoofd

Why not just use Google Docs?

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Thomas Rigby

You don’t necessarily want the real-time coauthoring experience offered by Microsoft SharePoint or Google Docs., this can inhibit your ability to determine who is responsible for specific changes to content. Branching offers a much clearer audit trail of changes.

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Renan Lourençoni Nobile

Very interesting tool, will keep an eye for updates