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Life & fun · June 14, 2017

Version Control for Microsoft Word

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Version Control for Microsoft Word launched on June 14, 2017 with 220 votes, #128 of 3,107 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

Version Control for Microsoft Word brings Git-style collaboration features to Word documents. Designed for lawyers, journalists, academics, and authors who work on long-lived documents with others, it enables users to make changes independently without affecting collaborators, then merge their work when ready. The tool applies version control and comparison capabilities familiar to software developers to document editing and collaboration.

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From the sources

We are building a collaboration tool to bring all the amazing features of Git and GitHub to the world of Microsoft Word. It’s designed for anyone who works on a long lived document with other people: lawyers, journalists, academics, authors, etc.. I come from a software development background and, due to the nature of writing code, we have had to come up with some great tools to collaborate. The main driver behind this is being able to make changes to a document (or in our case a piece of code) without impacting anyone else. Once we are satisfied with our change, we must then merge our work with that of other developers who may have changed the same file simultaneously, to eventually create…from simuldocs.com

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