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   Talia Hussain (talia@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 00:19:52 JST Talia Hussain

   tracked changes is absolutely the worst. Why do people torment themselves and the rest of us with this nightmare?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 00:19:50 JST Charlie Stross

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     @Talia Welcome to my world of pain! (My publishers INSIST on using tracked changes for copy edits. Otherwise I have no use whatsoever for Microsoft Turd …)

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 00:46:36 JST Charlie Stross

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     • eibhear

     @eibhear @Talia Unfortunately I can't do that. It'd break my publishers' workflow (which assumes everyone uses Word with tracked changes, then Adobe Acrobat—not even vanilla PDF—with its editing features. Gack.)

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     eibhear (eibhear@social.gibiris.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 00:46:39 JST eibhear

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross @Talia Back when I had the authority, I told the people I worked with to stop using track changes.

     I noticed someone turning it off briefly in an attempt to get changes past me without my noticing them.

     I had also found a tool that made it easy to compare documents.

     From then on, I just did a comparison of the new and the old and understood the changes that way. I still do this, but I "accept" all the changes first and then run the comparison tool.