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We have people review the Word document on SharePoint, never a PDF; we
have track changes turned on, and people can either leave comments, make
edits, or both. It has been working really well for us. Our versioning
settings are such that each check-out is a "major" version, so one can
restore an earlier version if necessary (it never has been), or just view
an earlier version (that too has not been necessary). We can also see the
comments people leave on SharePoint during check-in, which I really like.
After the reviewers are finished I go through and accept/reject the
obvious changes, and for any technical comments about which I'm unsure, I
ask the right person to check them and determine what they want to do.
Since we upgraded our free version of SharePoint with all the latest
updates, we have had no problems. We really like it.
This also works great when we're using a contract editor during crunch
times. I can check his work and accept all the obvious stuff, or reject
his changes.
Beth Kane
Senior Technical Writer & Proposal Project Manager
Ridgetop Group Inc.
3580 West Ina Road
Tucson, Arizona 85741 USA
520-742-3300 x104 | Fax 520-544-3180
RidgetopGroup.com
beth -dot- kane -at- ridgetopgroup -dot- com
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-----Original Message-----
Hello everyone, Doughty here.
We have recently started putting review copies on a SharePoint page and
telling reviewers to get their review copies (PDFs) there. In particular,
we want them to:
1. Check out the copy. 2. Make edits to it. (Commenting has been enabled
in the PDF.) 3. Check in the copy.
Do other people successfully use SharePoint in this way to manage reviews?
or in some similar way?
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