Any hints on how to hold the position relative to content in a rapidly changing Google Docs document with many simultaneous edits by multiple people?

There are nearly identically phrased questions online without an answer, unfortunately.

@albertcardona
1. I got around this by using GitHub to merge docs by many people while they're in draft state, then when in proof state move it to Google docs and only give the Editors access for finalization. This also makes it easier for versioning of future documents and checking who is contributing the most.

2. AFAIK there's a dirty trick where you can use devtools in the browser to make it run in offline mode under network settings. Other users changes won't propogate until you put it back in online mode. So open the doc, make the tab offline, do the work, put the tab online and save. Google docs is a pwa so it supports working offline.

Hope this helps.. later

@skanman Thank you, appreciate the tips. Unfortunately most of the people editing aren't acquainted with git, or version control to begin with. Will try the dev tools pause trick.

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