Collaborative editing of Word documents?

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Author Message David G. Axt, CCS, CSI ,SCIP Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 1553 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Friday, April 21, 2017 - 12:25 pm:    I am currently looking at collaboratively editing my Word specification documents with a client of mine. I have looked briefly at putting files on DropBox or OneDrive or using the Word "share" feature. We are looking at this approach to avoid the back and forth exchange of files. There has been problems in the past with the client editing old files while I was editing a newer version of the files. David G. Axt, CCS, CSI, SCIP Specifications Consultant Axt Consulting LLC Christopher Borcsok Senior Member Username: ckb Post Number: 54 Registered: 06-2013 Posted on Friday, April 21, 2017 - 11:09 pm:    Why not something like Google Docs to support real-time collaborative editing of the documents? Seamus McGrady (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Friday, April 21, 2017 - 04:05 pm:    Hello David, VisiSpecs is setup for collaboration as projects can be shared easily using the cloud server. There is a Free 30 day trial and setup time would probably be minutes. You each use Word to edit and the editing features should make things more efficient. I'd be happy to help you both with this as it seems very easy to do. Robin E. Snyder Senior Member Username: robin Post Number: 675 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Monday, April 24, 2017 - 11:41 am:    look at bluebeam studio. I don't like GD Anon (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Monday, April 24, 2017 - 11:50 am:    Be cautious of Bluebeam. It will corrupt your Microsoft Word .dotx template. Guest (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Monday, April 24, 2017 - 08:29 pm:    Is your client already using a system...or other consultants? I've previously worked with Bluebeam Studio (public university) and currently with ProjectWise (project-design manager), both "driven" by upstream client's choice. I've been having some access difficulties with the latter, but I think it's from my login privileges not being setup correctly.