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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.
I don't know if you have used SharePoint but basically if you open a word document that's in SharePoint, Word knows it, and when you save the word doc it saves directly back into SharePoint.
If you could emulate the SharePoint protocol this would be totally kick ass, since then rather than downloading an attachment, updating the document and then re-uploading it, you could just edit it and that rest would be magic
I guess the other route would be to offer a webdav link to the document to edit it, since Word does have a mini-webdav redirector, that might work ok.
Being a regular Confluence user I'm not a big believer in Word documents any more, but many are.
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CONFSERVER-2841 Provide locking for attachments
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CONFSERVER-17104 Warn users when editing the same attachments with the Office Connector
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CONFSERVER-5713 Build a Microsoft Sharepoint importer
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CONFSERVER-6012 Edit attachment plugin
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CONFSERVER-7349 Sharepoint Integration
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CONFCLOUD-5932 SharePoint-like functionality
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CONFSERVER-4462 Better Revision Control on Attachments (allow check-in / check-out)
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Ryan - thanks for the suggestion. The Word Dav plugin has some impressive functionality for enabling the use of MS Word in lieu of Confluence's Wiki Markup or Rich Text editing. Unfortunately, it does not do what we need because it doesn't retain the Microsoft Track Changes functionality. It appears to, but when you open it again all the change history is lost. The Confluence/Wiki change display function does not come close to Micosoft Change Tracking functionality, which is pretty close to exactly the way you would want it done.
Our user community heavily depends on Microsoft Track Changes. The lack of a seamless share-point-like reserved check-out/check-in feature is causing many users to turn away from Confluence. It is a real problem and top on our list of Confluence fixes. In fact, this is has become such an impediment to success that we are looking at developing our own plug-in which we would hope to share with the wider community. We would welcome partnering with anyone else to achieve this quickly.