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TenOC
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Jun 04, 2016

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. 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

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.

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?

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.

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  • If I were to start a project like this, I would probably use Ancestry.com or one of the on-line genealogy sites. I have extensive family trees for several of our family name lines, but I use GenoPro which is a local app that will interface with various genealogy databases. Both Ancestry.com and the apps you install on your PC will handle photos and have databases behind them to handle and organize a lot more data in a way a Word document could never do. With Ancestry.com, you can give other family members varying levels of access to modify and update without fear of overwriting your information.

    Rob