Hi Jon, Welcome to the group!
There's no built in feature in Versions to use Word's native document comparison, but because you can make your own custom comparison scripts, it is absolutely possible to make this work. I've made a script just like that some time ago, that will use Word to compare Word files, and Kaleidoscope for everything else a little while ago. You can find the script here, along with instructions to use it: https://gist.github.com/980499#comments It's been a while since I tried this, but I'm pretty sure this will work with the current release of Word, and the current release of Versions. I don't think Mac Word has a three-up view, or if it does, I've never been able to find it. The script should open up the documents together, highlighting the changes though. One thing you may also want to try on the Mac is Kaleidoscope, Sofa's (our) file comparison app, see www.kaleidoscopeapp.com. It can compare Word files, but strips all formatting before it compares them as plain text. I like it myself for Word comparisons, mostly because comparisons open a lot faster than Word can manage, but if you have a lot of inline graphs or illustrations, or if the formatting is important to your comparisons, it probably won't be as good for you. There's a 30-day trial available on the site, so make sure you give it a try. Cheers, - Dirk the Versions team On May 19, 11:57 am, Jon Olav Vik <[email protected]> wrote: > Can Versions be set up to use Microsoft Word's native "Review > > Compare" facility? With TortoiseSVN on Windows, I can show the log of > a Word document, select two revisions and choose "Compare revisions" > from the context menu. This brings up Word's three-pane view with > panes called "Original", "Revised", and "Compared Document". > > My boss is using Versions on the Mac, and comparing iterations of Word > manuscripts is the main thing he should be doing. Any help in getting > this to work would be highly appreciated. > > Best regards, > Jon Olav Vik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en.
