how to track changes in Word (*doc) or Office (*odt) documents?

• convert to markdown, then track changes in markdown files
• related post (also suggesting to convert to md)
• more comments from stackoverflow

using Git on LaTeX files:

• “git is good at merges, given reasonable input” (reference)

• some suggestions:
  • “write each sentence on a separate line” (reference)
  • use branches, then test the integration of features on a separate branch before merging the ‘final’ version to master (see ‘Testing combinations of features’ exercise)
• tools to consider (not tested):
  • git-latexdiff