Question posted 2008 · +32 upvotes
How would people recommend doing version control for word documents? Is the in build control up to the job or is it better to rely on dedicated version control systems, and if so, which ones?
Accepted answer +13 upvotes
@lomaxx:
Subversion has built in support for word documents
More specifically, TortoiseSVN does. If you use the TortoiseSVN context menu in explorer to, e.g., bring up a diff, Tortoise will call a script that uses Word’s built-in comparison feature to do the actual diff’ing.
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