Word's Track changes feature: Merging document from different reviewers?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

While browsing one of O'Reilly's excellent "Missing Manuals" series, I 
discovered a useful tip for working with Word's revision tracking:

If you have several different editors or reviewers who will be working 
on several copies of a document simultaneously, you don't have to 
review the edits separately in each file, then copy them into a single 
master file. Instead, you can merge the comments into a single 
documents:
- Open the Tools menu
- Select Merge Documents

I haven't tried this with anything complicated, but I imagine the 
feature would produce unpredictable results if two reviewers made 
vastly incompatible changes to the same chunk of text. I also imagine 
the merge would fail if you tried to merge significantly different 
versions of a document.

Has anyone worked with this feature long enough to have a feel for how 
well this feature works?

--Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)


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