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My wife is a laywer and she and her colleagues (and the other lawyers they are working with) pretty much base their workflow for revising documents on track changes. I've never heard her complain about it.

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Maybe she is used to it? I have used track changes and it is good and all ... but it may not be exactly the same as being able to know where and when a change was done, by whom, and with the reasoning sometimes added with it that comes from VCSs like SVN and GIT.

I think that's the point - if you use these things expecting them to work like a revision control system for code you'll be disappointed and frustrated.

Meanwhile, people who have no such expectations cope perfectly well.

> Meanwhile, people who have no such expectations cope perfectly well.

You know how they do that right, stay in online chats and ask who, how, why, when. Awful waste of efforts

> where and when a change was done, by whom, and with the reasoning sometimes added

On Office 365 at least, it does tell you all of those things.

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