One more important caveat to keep in mind, as pointed out by lightswitch05, is that this will upload your document to a third-party server. This is an embedded Microsoft Office document, powered by Office Online. Huge thanks to cubeguerrero for posting the Microsoft Office 365 viewer in the comments. docx as a PDF file Those can also be independently rendered using PDF.js by Mozilla. However, if you'd rather have native support, in most, if not all browsers, I'd recommend resaving the. Solution adapted from ' How to display a word document using fancybox'. However, if you only need to display the Word Document, but don't need to edit it, you can use Google Documents' Viewer via an to display a remotely hosted. If you do use a date, be sure to use YYMMDD format so the files show in the correct date sequence in the folder listing.Ĭombining these two approaches gives a good picture of what the versions were, and what the differences are between one version and its two adjacent versions.No browsers currently have the code necessary to render Word Documents, and as far as I know, there are no client-side libraries that currently exist for rendering them either. Using dates, you can easily see which is the most recent version. I find it helpful to incorporate the date in each file version's name, and avoid calling any version 'final', since in my experience there is very seldom a final version, and lots of different 'Finals' gets real confusing. That way you will build a catalog of all the versions. My very strong personal preference is to avoid the Balloon method of showing changes - I find it impossible to read and much prefer the in text additions and deletions.Īnother way is to create the document as ReadOnly, and every time the doc is revised save it under a new name, also ReadOnly. The document is easily viewed and printed 'as current version - net of all changes' or 'Initial version with changes highlighted'. Track Changes will show who made what change, if you are careful about how you set it up.

The short answer is no, unless you make arrangements ahead of time.Īs Bytepusher said, you can use Track changes to track all the changes that have been made over time, but by itself this does not keep track of versions.

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