Re:Someone please fix text-editing software
by Pxtl on Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:58PM
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Outside of the professional writing industry, Track Changes is a blessing. Funny how he complains about Track Changes. When I show new users the Track Changes functionality in word they get giddy with excitement. It's not perfect, but it's a hundred times better than what I usually expect from a stakeholder "hey, I sent back your Word document with some changes. What? No I don't remember what page I made them on."
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Re:Someone please fix text-editing software
by brownbat on Thursday May 15, 2014 @01:28PM
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> hey, I sent back your Word document with some changes. What? No I don't remember what page I made them on."
Compare and merge even let you pretend everyone you know neatly tracks their changes, whether you've told them about it yet or not.
... wait, you can do that? Awesome!
I think people who use certain software full-time and in a professional setting experience it in a completely different way than people who use it only occasionally. Few people outside of publishing seem to spend truly long stretches of time in Word.