I work in a multi-editor environment, on documents that must be edited by various versions of Word (2007 - 2013). On most documents we use a version number (e.g. 1.3), which we include:

- in a standard filename pattern, e.g. My document v1.3.docx
- as a custom text property (Version) among the document's Properties
- on the title page,where it's inserted from the custom Version property
- in some cases, in footers (where again it's inserted from Version).

This versioning is manual and relies on good cooperative habits, which causes us problems when those habits break down: versions of the doc get out of sync.

I'd rather use a proper version control system (git, for example), have it impose each version number upon us, and incorporate that number into the document's Version property and filename (using VBA or whatever).

Has anyone done this successfully, and if so how?