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Genuine question: what do you do with Word docs sent back to you as email attachments with track changes and embedded comments?

I'm slowly realising that my colleagues for whom this "works" are never going to change. Our shared folders are littered with "Copy of FINAL final + comments 2.7.18-my-copy.docx.docx". It doesn't matter how slick my git + markdown + pandoc workflow is when conversations go like this:

"Just use track changes."

"But..."

"JUST USE TRACK CHANGES."



Is your markdown to Word reversible? If so, accept all changes, convert back to Markdown and run git diff. I guess you're losing comments though.


Definitely worth a go.

Comments might be extractable, I'm not familiar with docx format but it's zipped X(?)ML type data so there will be parsers. Or a conversion to an intermediate format that's more amenable to computer processing, perhaps.

The problem remains in reverse, though: it's expected that I will produce Word docs full of track changes edits.




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