Versions

[Wallace]

We still use Versions in Word 2003, but on a limited basis. Currenty we have
a large (400+) page document to which 6 or 7 authors/reviewers are
contributing and for which an electronic trail of who did what and when is
essential.

We want to work around Versions' notorious ability to corrupt files by at
the end of each work day accepting/deleting all changes and saving to a new
filename. That way the next day's version will be saved to a new file but the
electronic trail from the earlier documents will remain intact.

Question: will this tactic work, or are we better off abandoning Versions
altogether?
The difficulty with that, though, is document management will become next to
impossible. Thanks.

 

[macropod]

Hi Wallace,

Periodically saving a copy with all the latest tracked changes, then copying this to a new file & accepting all the changes before
continuing will certainly work. It just takes a bit of discipline and a version-tracking scheme that you can apply to the file
naming.

Cheers