What does anyone know about Black-Lining ?
John Roberts
This is supposed to be some kind of new format where attorneys can exchange
docs back and forth, editing as they go, and both can see the entire history
of edits, by who, etc.
At least that is sort of what I am hearing.
Can someone bring me up to speed, please, on this activity in the legal
profession - and also how is, or how will this be addressed in current or
future editions of WP Legal Edition?
Charles Rossiter
John,
I don't know about "black-lining", but you can use Document Review. In
this, one person is the "Author" and other people are "Reviewers". Each
person has a colour, and all text proposed for addition, moving or deletion
is marked with that user's colour.
Eventually, the Author works through the manuscript accepting or rejecting
each proposal for change.
All participants in this team can see all editing proposals made.
--
Charles Rossiter
(South Africa)
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Doug Thomas
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and send it on to other lawyers for review.
There are dedicated programs for this as well. If you are a practicing
lawyer, consider subscribing to the newsletters at Technolawyer.com for
information on all sorts of stuff legal and technological.
BTW - there will be no new version of WP legal.
Doug Thomas
Debra Earle
Well, I think that the description John provides is more along the lines
of "document review", where each editor's changes are noted in color and
can be accepted etc. Redlining is a much more simplified feature for
viewing changes typically between just two versions of a document.
Also, although it's true there will be no new legal-specific version of WP
(at least at this point) ... there might well be exciting new
Legal-specific features available in the future standard an/or Pro
releases of WP. The difference is more that, at this point, planned
versions do not include any specific-to-legal 3rd-party apps in the box,
as WP8's & WP9's Legal Editions did.
-- DE
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Tom Fisher
I've never really checked it out, but doesn't WP9 have a "Versions" feature?
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Debra Earle
Tom Fisher wrote:
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> I've never really checked it out, but doesn't WP9 have a "Versions" feature?
Yes, but since it was dropped in WP10 (present in WP7-WP9) I didn't want
to mention it. It does keep track of iterative edits, but even just if on
one system with one editor.
-- DE
Tom Fisher
If you know, has anyone ever mentioned that the feature worked well?
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Jack Waananen
I don't know if you can say yea or nay as to whether Corel Versions
"worked well". It worked like the Microsoft Versions feature -- which
may or may not be a good thing or a bad thing.
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Debra Earle
"Corel Versions" worked fine, but there was updating needed for multi-user
Windows versions, and it was not heavily used,so Corel dropped it. (They
actually did fix it in WP8 & WP9 for Windows NT, but I gather that the
even-tighter security in W2K and XP, for restricted Users, was going to
require some effort to resolve.)
However, the WP author/review functionality, present in all WPWin versions
since 7, works extremely well, and is very similar to its MS counterpart
in Word. It is very easy to use, with the only real issue being that
editors sometimes forget to set a color for themselves, thus making it
hard to tell the edits apart visually (although they are identifiable by
those little pop-ups that you also sometimes see in WP document margins,
for example when you enter a "comment" that is not visible on the printed
or page-view page.)
There are some glitches,however, in how the author/review markings
translate when moving documents between WP & Word; that is to say, some
markup remains but much of the identification etc. can be lost in the
translation.
I suggest you either give it a personal test run -- to see how easy it is
to use (File/Document/Review) -- or at least read the Help file info on
it.
-- DE