[ale] [OT] Organization Ideas

[Brian Pitts]

Thompson Freeman wrote:
> 
> I realize that this is pretty much off topic, but there are some bright, 
> apparently organized people here who may have a clue or three I can 
> borrow or outright steal. But first, the triggering back story.
> 
> Daughter #2 got laid off two days ago, and has the pleasure of hitting 
> the job market. I get to edit the resume. So far, there are three 
> "organization" or "planning" challenges showing up: getting text into 
> her word processor (Mac Word) such that making a small change doesn't 
> screw up the entire formatting job, tracking revisions so we can edit 
> the file related to the copy at hand

Tracking revisions is doable in OpenOffice and supposedly transfers okay 
to MS Office.

http://www.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=42970
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Tracking_changes_to_a_document

-Brian