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Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't... by dublinben on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:10PM (#9069593)
There's a lot of unprofessional behavior and software practices in the "professional" publishing field. Many authors refuse to write in anything but MS Word, and companies rely on Track Changes for version control of manuscripts.
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Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't... by FireBeyond on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @04:58PM (#9071236)
I'm definitely not an everyday user of Track Changes, but isn't that the very use case for it, version control inside a manuscript?

The biggest caveat I've seen to its use are ballooning file sizes (meh), and (more importantly) leaking information. But I also thought recent versions of Word made it more prominent to discard tracking information when doing a Save/As.

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Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't... by cwyers on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:41PM (#9069796)
Why is that unprofessional?
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