I am a technical person who recently began a term in local government. We have spent the last year drafting a very long document that regulates local signage.
There has been much debate on our commission (all non-technical people except me) on whether it is possible to track all changes to the document. The people who are doing the drafting don't want to spend time on these matters.
Without track changes, the drafters have the power to slip in small changes that could drastically alter the intent of the document. So, we need some tool to quickly compare versions of the document in order to focus on recent changes.
As a technical person, I use Beyond Compare all the time and I am using BC to monitor document changes by converting the Word documents to text. I need someway to "publish" those changes so that I can show them to the rest of the group. I doubt I could ever convince all these lawyers to learn how to use BC.
I would love to know if there is someway to connect BC with Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature. Would it be possible to somehow do a three-way merge that results in some sort of word document using Track changes.
Thanks,
( I truly love your product. I use it every day and it makes my life so much easier.)
Dan
There has been much debate on our commission (all non-technical people except me) on whether it is possible to track all changes to the document. The people who are doing the drafting don't want to spend time on these matters.
Without track changes, the drafters have the power to slip in small changes that could drastically alter the intent of the document. So, we need some tool to quickly compare versions of the document in order to focus on recent changes.
As a technical person, I use Beyond Compare all the time and I am using BC to monitor document changes by converting the Word documents to text. I need someway to "publish" those changes so that I can show them to the rest of the group. I doubt I could ever convince all these lawyers to learn how to use BC.
I would love to know if there is someway to connect BC with Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature. Would it be possible to somehow do a three-way merge that results in some sort of word document using Track changes.
Thanks,
( I truly love your product. I use it every day and it makes my life so much easier.)
Dan
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