[Franz12]

Hi! We have frequently the situation that we have a manuscript that needs to
be edited by several different persons (simulataneously). The first problem
is that - at least to my knowledge - even the new word 2007 is not able to
have multiple persons working on the same manuskript as e.g. Onenote can.
therefore, our people need to open the work manuscript as a read only
document and save it under another name. Then, the mess up begins: word 2007
seems to be able to combine the edits of 2 persons, but what about more than
2 persons. Do I have to really pay for the precious time of my people to
manually put togehter one by one costing much of time???
Furthermore, even then, we are not out of the mess. Thats because word has
the behaviour to hightlight even all completely unimportant and unneccary
things as wanted changes of the editors such as language changes, format
changes and so on, where never a editor picked on, but they were
automatically generated just by opening these manuscripts on different
computers. And in an international company, it is clearly not avoidable that
the people NEEDS to use different international versions of word and windows.
So, if somebody of Microsoft is listening and willing to answer: what to do
to keep on trying ms word instead of moving over to other products which
incoroporates such an automatic version tracking? Is it for example possible
to filter the highlighted edits in the proof and limit them to those, which
are interesting such as changes in the text, but to exclude those silly
language changes and so on? It sounds not so important, but having e.g. the
edits of 10 people in the manuscript and changes were tracked highlighted,
you are going crazy if you are at the end not able to see the important
changes because they are kind of hided by those silly ones like language or
grammar changes....
Any ideas? May a commercially available add-on to get out of this situation?
I cannot imagine that MS is not aware of this situation , because all people
I know that use this product in a commercial environmnet, where normally many
people have to work on those manuscript have the same problem and are REALLY
looking for alternatives! Thanks! F