Thread: Version number for Word document, automated by VCS
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Old 04-08-2014, 11:18 PM
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OK, but until you get your VCS implemented and, more importantly, enforced, there's nothing you can do safeguard against "people squirrel away a document, edit it as a personal copy and email it around". How your versioning will be controlled by a VCS really depends on how that system works.

Since you're using Office, you might consider using SharePoint (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...010021576.aspx). It may not be the best VCS out there, but it's probably the best supported.
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