There are times when you would really like to have more than one person working on a document. Current technology lets you do this but makes it really difficult to merge the changes.

Now, with DeltaXML ODT Merge, this job becomes much, much easier, because DeltaXML ODT Merge merges all the changes into a single document.

DeltaXML ODT Merge has a number of different use cases:

• accept or reject changes from multiple reviewers by working on just one document
• allow more than one editor to work on a document simultaneously and merge their changes together
• allow intelligent resolution of conflicts in a Content Managment System (CMS) when two users check in the same edited document
• merge changes from two different branches in a CMS

ODT Merge works at the level of each paragraph, table or list. ODT Merge compares each edited version with the base and if only one is different, the changes are shown as tracked changes so that they can be accepted or rejected.

If more than one editor has changed the same item, the change from each editor is shown separately for easier understanding. At the same time, all the changes are intelligently merged into one copy of the paragraph or item to make it easier to accept or reject each change.

When you have finished accepting and rejecting changes in the document, you simply select a menu function 'Finalize document' to automatically accept any remaining changes and remove all the greyed-out sections which do not belong in the final document.