Does anyone know of a logical way to allow users of MS Word to access a single document from a linux server that will manage source control on the document? These users are home users for a non-profit sports orginization creating a document for end users. These people will be editing this document via there home pc's. There is currently already a server they use for statistics and such, which is a Linux box. They must us MS Word as they are the most basic of basic users who can barely use PC's. I know there are commerical software(s) available or co-location sites to do this, but I was not sure if anyone had ever run across anything that is specfic to MS Word docs and document/source control management on Linux (or other OS's, Solaris, etc.) Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Al
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:35:16PM -0500, Ritacco, Alan wrote:
Does anyone know of a logical way to allow users of MS Word to access a single document from a linux server that will manage source control on the document? These users are home users for a non-profit sports orginization creating a document for end users. These people will be editing this document via there home pc's. There is currently already a server they use for statistics and such, which is a Linux box. They must us MS Word as they are the most basic of basic users who can barely use PC's.
MS Word has it's own version control built in. I don't know how well it works, having never used it myself, but it is in there. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:58:26PM -0500, Frank Sweetser wrote:
MS Word has it's own version control built in. I don't know how well it works, having never used it myself, but it is in there.
It's hideous. I don't think I'll ever recover from the experience. If you're talking about having multiple people edit the document, and merge their changes, that is. But I think Word has a feature akin to "#include". You can reference another document to be inserted into your document. In this case you can break up your document into several .doc files, where presumably each author has control over one of their own, and they'll all be combined by the master document. Whether or not you use Word's revision control, or do it with includes, all you really need is a fileserver. Unless you're crazy and use something like CVS instead. I've said too much. -Chuck
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