[cvsnt] $log & $header in M/S files

[Ian Epperson]

We save all our M$ Office files as HTML.  This usually results in one file
(if you've got no header/footer in Word, if you've only got one sheet in XL)
with no formatting loss.  Also, viewing the results in ViewCVS is nice since
it renders directly in the browser.

Word of caution:  Word and XL both write out the cursor position, as well as
last save time and last author.  Therefore there is ALWAYS a conflict if
merging.  XL 2000 would simply crash if the conflict marker where in the
file (<<<<<<), XL XP now handles this better - it just mangles the file as
it displays it.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Blencowe 
> [mailto:bill.blencowe at datacommmanagementsciences.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:14 AM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [cvsnt] $log & $header in M/S files
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>    I would like to version control Microsoft Word, Excel, & 
> PowerPoint docs.
> CVS want's to handle them as binary, so I can't use the $log$ 
> & $header$ in
> the doc's.  In the past I've found it really useful to have 
> this stuff as
> part of the doc.  Any sugguestions???
> 
>    I havn't tried forcing them as text, not binaries, but it 
> was worth a
> question first.
> 
>         -bill
> 
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