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mtlynch ◴[14 Nov 24 16:31 UTC] No.42137851[source]▶

Earlier this year, I worked on 60 pages of M&A contract documents with lawyers, and I found the change tracking in Word miserable. It's so difficult to see only the delta quickly, it's slow to go back through the history, and it's hard to discuss a change within the tool itself.

It felt crazy that there wasn't better tooling for this, but I also appreciate the difficulty of trying to get lawyers out of the MS Word workflow that they know.

Good luck to the team! I hope you're successful.

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1. ulbu ◴[14 Nov 24 16:57 UTC] No.42138169[source]▶

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it’s ridiculous that a document formatting app/format is used for creation and storage of documents. especially for official ones that follow strict formatting protocol. all data that satisfies the protocol is just a record! just pop a json into a template-engine and you’re go.

i’m so sad about the shithead influence of microsoft on our society.

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