svn or mercurial version control of word documents

Question

As far as I know, Microsoft went to some sort of xml-based representation in their most recent version of office. If that\'s really true, then I would assume that version c

Answer 1

Depends on the setting.

If it's a short lived doc that you want to track changes in, then use the Word internal control.

Otherwise use SVN or Sharepoint or some other External means of recording versioned documents. If you don't you run the risk that anybody could overwrite the file with all the versioning information lost.