Re: Lets step back a bit
"The only real reason autosave is there is because Microsoft couldn't work out how to do collaborative editing seamlessly. You only get updates after a save - hence having autosave turned on by default otherwise more people would realise just how broken the collaborative editing actual is."
It's still better than everyone sitting in the lab head's office VERY SLOWLY writing a paper together. The lab head being the only one with the computer. Wastes lots of people's time. Mine because I'm the embryology specialist and the cell biology stuff is not my bag and vice versa.
I've made it work with the youngest proofreading her thesis chapters with her on Word and me on Libre Office. Took some trialling though to get the changes to save.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
