A digital collaborative publishing system and associated method of use, the system being configured to store one or more format-neutral text documents and a plurality of format templates, each format template comprising formatting information for formatting text documents. The format-neutral text documents are separate from the plurality of format templates. The system is configured to selectively apply a format template from the plurality of format templates to the at least one format-neutral text document in order to produce, save, store and/or display at least one formatted document.
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