Can anyone make a simplistic version control like git for microsoft word? I just want an easy check in, check out, and seeing the diff. Goddamn some of these tools got a lot of steps

Excel has a version control built in. I don't know about word.

@electrineer they do but the process is quite tedious for me, and pretty confusing

@irene I'm scared if google docs break the format and one day they asked in microsoft word format

@devtea there’s simul but it comes with a price, as the free version only allows like 10 docs.
https://www.simuldocs.com/

Other then that I’m yet to find a nice way off doing it besides -v1.doc

@irene yes, but it breaks the format when I opened it on word once in the past, and I have to do some small fixing

@C0D4 I only got 1 doc that needed version control, I'll check it out

Doesn't online word with one drive have that? Like automatically and then you can check the history if needed?

@hasu I kinda hate working on document on browser, sometimes it's lagging and I need to use the mendeley extension on desktop

@electrineer Yeah, Microsoft calls it version control, but I'm sure the guys who make version control at Microsoft have never ever used any kind of version control.

Do you know the so called "version control" of Sharepoint? The one calling it version control will surely still believe in the easter bunny.

@devTea true. I wonder if you can still have that on desktop if the file is in one drive or if there is a specific addon for word. Hm. Now you got me curious. I want to check it out x)

@ddephor yeah the sharepoint only puts version number beside the file, I can't find out how to check the differences, and it requires a lot of click and shit

Learn LaTeX!

@devTea Why not use the OneDrive Client integrated with Windows?

@beegC0de LaTeX is great until they ask for the document in .docx format (as devTea mentioned) to allow editing/annotating.

@gathurian never heard of it, is it easy to use, currently the one @C0D4 mentioned is really easy

@ddephor well, what does one expect from Microsoft

@devTea It's literally integrated in the operating system. Just open up OneDrive (it should pop up if you search for it in the start menu), log in and that's it. Now you have an extra entry in the File Explorer Side Pane with all your files saved on OneDrive. On rightclick on a file, you should see an entry 'Version History' or something the like.

Alternatively, you can use the 'Versions' Feature of Word, but you need to make new versions manually (kinda like a Git commit): https://word.tips.net/T001778_Savin...

@gathurian I’ll look into it, currently simul is working pretty nice, I just can’t manually merge the commit

Why don't you make it? :)

You can even diff and merge Word files using the review tab. I use it regularly to merge the comments of my proofreaders into the working document.

@620hun it shows the difference on real-time and it kinda looks annoying