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Re:Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word by titanix2 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:31AM (#14552974)
It includes at least me :) I switched to Latex for writing my second master thesis because I wanted to use version control but Word is far more easier to deal with when the document include unicode character outside the BMP. So I really wanted Word + git from that time.

Also when collaborating for writing a paper with Word, version control can be a huge help.

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Re:Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:58AM (#14553631)
Did you ever try Xelatex? I think it has support for arbitrary utf8 characters. Also for your system's built in fonts fallbacks is a character is missing from a font.
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Re:Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word by TrickyRick on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:09AM (#14553296)
Why not use something like Google docs or office 365 then?
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Re:Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word by emodendroket on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:19AM (#14553366)
Word has way more features than GDocs. Haven't spent time with O365 but as far as I know half the draw is you can use it with Office.
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