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Jacquers wrote: unless people have the discipline
and therein lies the problem... 
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Differencing or "blame" or "audit" usually work well to find out what changed and who changed it.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If you are using the full blown MS Office products, you can turn on revision tracking.
Whoever "owns" the documents can periodically "accept" all of the changes to reduce clutter.
You will still need SharePoint or some other (real) VCS for individual version tracking.
We also have some documents we store as PDFs, there are a few commercial products that produce nice diffs between two PDFs and output it as (of course!) another PDF. (Still need a VCS or some sort of store for the versions)
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It doesn't matter what you use as much as the fact that everybody uses it!
At a previous position, we used a shared OneNote and it was perfect. Everybody used it every time and things were great.
My current position uses Confluence. A few people use it, but its the company standard. So we end up with centralized documentation that isn't very complete.
So if you get a solution, get buy in from many people and highly encourage people to use it. If they don't, no system will work.
Hogan
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TFS + Diff Doc[^] ( See supporting file types)
TFS Integration step
Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Visual Studio Team Foundation Server -> Configure User Tools
Extention - .doc,.docx
Operation - Compare
Command - [installation path]\DiffDoc.exe
Arguments - /M%1 /S%2
Very effective !
If you need more apps. Here you go.TFS diff apps[^]
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Thx, Diffdoc seems to answer my question about comparing Word Docs stored in source control.
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Discipline -- you can get it anywhere. Set up *simple* processes (a History list/table never hurts), and make sure that everyone understands the reasons for following them.
Oh, and if anyone even begins to mouth the letters X, M, and L, kick him in the teeth before he gets them all out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Jacquers wrote: For example, if someone updates the document you don't know what has changed.
Huh, what? I get a change bar and initials tag saying who made the changes.
Maybe you have that feature turned off?
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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"Doc" Rupert Pemsel: "I'm a Trainee Anaesthetist"
Prostitute: "I know, I didn't feel a thing!"
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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So it's Doctor Whooker for the next series then?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's only when you're inside you realise it's bigger than it looks.
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So what they're essentially saying is that it's OK for him to play doctors and nurses.
Sounds reasonable, to me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I got an email today from the MS support team, saying they are going to review a change suggestion I support.
I thought "I don't remember anything about it" - so I followed the link: Open links in an actual browser – Visual Studio[^]
Oh yes - VS should open help and such like in the default browser instead of inside VS. I remember that now, but wasn't that a while ago?
Oh yes. Four years.
It's taken MS four years to notice suggestions - not to implement them, no. Not even to decide to schedule them for implementation. Four years to to go "Oh. Yes. maybe an idea, that. Let's think about it".
Fer Elephants Sake MS! No wonder you don't make any impact in the mobile devices market if everything you do is over four years late...the competition will have released three or four updated devices by then!
Does explain a lot about Windows Mobile though...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That was their rapid response team.
This space for rent
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I wish you'd put the joke icon on that... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You typoed "vapid".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow. That is slow, even for microsoft? You get the impression that someone was bored at work and just started scrolling through the suggestion pile and coincidentally happened on yours... "Why didn't we think of that? Open web pages in a standards compliant browser? Hmmmm...." lol
That being said, don't tell anyone, but Visual Studio is still one of my favourite IDEs... Shhh... It's our little secret... 
Er, I can't think of a funny signature right now.
How about a good fart to break the silence?
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Probably they tought of it on thier own, and then started searching through the suggestion bin to link it to community feedback but forgot to look at the date first. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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David Lumm wrote: Wow. That is slow, even for microsoft
Not even a little bit. There are thousands of bugs (*bugs*, mind) in Windows and Office that have been there for a couple of decades.
They're too busy "fixing" the stuff that works, to get on with what their customers actually need.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The guys that knows how to fix most of the bugs probably left them already. That is the sad reality of leaving something for to long. Person that actually implemented or knew how to work with the technology leaves the company. To put a newb on it will cost far to expensive. Probably take a day+ to just get to the point where he/she can fix it.
Hell, if I work on something and have to return to it later on it takes a while to get what I did.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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"Later on", in my case, is less than a week.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That is truly ironic when you consider that Bill and the Boys got going on the back of IBM not being able to move quickly enough
veni bibi saltavi
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Eventually, we all become our parents. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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