My new pet peeve - final
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AFAIK that's only meant to compare the most recent (or FINAL? ;P ) changes. I doubt it can track revisions of revisions. I remember using such a feature in document reviews some 20 years ago. Of course version control was rudimentary at the time, and nobody ever thought of versioning word documents either, so what we did is maintain version numbers right within the document. At least that kept the confusion concerning names to a minimum. But it had other drawbacks... :^)
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Stefan_Lang wrote:
AFAIK that's only meant to compare the most recent (or FINAL? ;-P ) changes. I doubt it can track revisions of revisions.
I've only used it for that, so you may be right. But using that in comb with source control is better than document naming mangling ya know.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm organising some documents and I've realised I have a new pet peeve: putting "Final" in a document name to indicate that it's the final version. In itself this isn't awful. What's awful is: document.docx document - final.docx document - final - DG-comments.docx document - FINAL.docx So which one's the final one? This is why documents need source control... [Edit: Just found:" Copy of Copy of document FINAL.docx". We have a winner!]
cheers Chris Maunder