On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
In fact in collaborative environments (e.g. companies), where several people work together on the same document, Word documents _always_ end up like that - A hopelessly tangled spaghetti mess. In fact I never managed to figure out how to copy and paste content from two different versions of a document, which are both perfectly well "styled" and which were created using the same "template" in such a way that the resulting document isn't messed up.
I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text and only futz with formatting when you agree on a final version. It may not look pretty, but it's efficient. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
