If two users, let’s call them Peter and Paul, edit this document at the same time, Simul will create a branch for each of them. This provides a much cleaner version history and allows you to make better decisions when consolidating revisions.Īlternatively, we can take a look at a very simple example, if the following document exists in Simul:The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Instead of a real-time co-authoring experience, Simul uses branches and provides tools to help you merge conflicting versions. Simul works slightly differently to the established document management platforms like SharePoint or Google Docs. This means we provide tools to help you understand what versions of your document exist, the differences between them, as well as a full audit trail of your work. Simul Documents is a version control system for Microsoft Word.

This is when the concept of a “master” copy becomes important. This can have consequences as the document becomes fragmented. At Simul, we recognize that collaborating on a Word document can have some hurdles which are best overcome by quickly sharing a document on a popular platform. In an ideal world, everyone would agree on a single platform to store a document, and share the same strict views on version control.

* Box.com is not mentioned in this article but is fully supported. Simul Documents is a version control system for Microsoft Word which now supports direct integration with the web’s most popular online storage providers! This allows versions to be easily tracked across multiple platforms:

The same document can be copied all over the place and keeping track of all the distributed versions becomes exponentially more difficult. Collaborating on Word documents is often fragmented and takes place via email, Google Docs, SharePoint, OneDrive, DropBox and many other platforms.

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