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The ideal solution to this problem (and many others) would be using text based, human readable file formats.



That doesn't sound ideal, that sounds subpar but easier. A human readable text based PPT sounds atrocious!


This doesn't mean that people have to edit in text editors.

Anyway, having non-proprietary file formats is more important than being human readable. For this reason and others.


Like the XML-based formats that MS Office has used as its default for saving documents since 2007?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML


Isn't it zipped? Can Git really handle .docs? Would be great!




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