What is a MS Word 2013 Feature Called ????
I am creating a family history. I expect the history will be 100's of pages long and will include a number of photos and drawings of family trees as well as internal and external links. 1. Sin...
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1. Since the history will include a lot of formatting, I will use MS Word 2013. I thought about Google Docs, but I think Word will handle the formatting better. Your thoughts. . . . . :h
GDoc is pretty good, as long as you have fast reliable Internet. It has an offline mode too, but I'm not sure about how it works.
2. I will then share this history with my full family (about 50 people) using MS OneDrive or Google Drive. Since I will (?) use MS Word, I will probably use OneDrive.
Yes, have to use each brand's sharing service, trying to do it cross brand will lead to confusion
3. My question. I want to allow members of the family to add to the family history. I hope that there will be 100's of additions and changes. I know that MS Word and Google Docs each allow for editing by people you invite. However, I want more than simple editing. I want the document to show "Added by XXXXXX on dd/mm/yyyy" to each comment or edit. I am sure (?) that Word can do this, but I do not know what this feature is called so I can search on how to use it. I have looked at "Track Changes" but once the change is accepted and the file is saved the author's information is lost. Is there a way to accept the change and keep the author's information?
Office 365 has this feature, and so does GDoc - Office charges for it, each person you want to collaborate with you will need to pay for Office, and everyone has to use the online version of Word. If collaboration is a big deal, GDoc is the way to go. As far as how the changes are formatted, you assign your collaborators different colors, and their changes are highlighted with that color. It will be up to you to teach them into typing the "Added by" part themselves.
4. I have thought about footnotes, but this requires more MS Work "skill" than some of the family have. I would like for the action to be automatically.
There's probably some add-on you can buy for Word to do automatic footnotes. There appears to be some support built into Word, more info here: support.office.com
