modern-office-git-diff

I've mentioned this in a similar thread a few months back, but it looks like it could be relevant here, too: https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/modern-office-git-diff I've made this script which automatically extracts the Office file format (which is a ZIP archive of XML documents) and versions the XML documents and their extracted text contents alongside the binary Office file. This is done using a Git hook and it seems to work pretty well. If you're in need of versioning Office documents, this might be a good enough solution for you. Edit: I should also address why not use the built-in Office versioning feature? The reason I don't use it is because I like to be able to view the diffs in Git. I don't want to have to use Office just to see the changes. My solution offers that. By doubling-up the way the original is versioned in the way of

This might not be exactly what you're asking for but I'll just leave it here in case someone finds it useful: A couple years back I built this: https://github.com/tomashubelbauer/modern-office-git-diff It is a pre-commit script which unpacks Office XML into text contents and tracks that alongside the source file. This way you can consider the binary to be a source of truth, but with each commit you also get a textual diff showing what changed content-wise. More or less. Some person built the same thing for OpenOffice and I link their project in my readme, too.