Happy new year to you all!
I am working on establishing a version control standard and was just
wondering whether anybody had come across the following issue:
When using "v0.01" in the title of a MS document to indicate the version,
we have noticed that if the document is accessed via an email attachment it
loses the decimal point in the title; e.g. becomes, "v0 01"
I have been advised that this is because the "." is only recognised in the
title to identify the type of file extension, - e.g. ".doc" for Word.
It might seem insignificant, (obviously this doesn't help with consistency
but when listing documents it still seems to correctly put them in order
regardless of whether it has a "." or not) - but I wondered whether there
are there any other implications that this might have, (e.g. would this be
problematic using an EDRMS or MS Sharepoint?)
It has been suggested that I should use a hyphen instead "v0-01" - which
I'm certainly considering using if only for consistency sake; but again I'd
be interested to hear if anybody had come across this and whether there are
any implications of doing this?
All responses gratefully received!
Many thanks
Caroline Ives
Corporate Records Officer
Salford City Council
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