HowtoenablekeywordexpansionforWord,Excel,PPTdocumentsin.doc

How to enable keyword expansion for Word, Excel, PPT documents in Subversion. 1: Add to your document at the places where you want to get the keywords from Subversion a.) For getting the Path in the subversion server $HeadURL:: $ b.) For the current Revision Revision:: $ c.) For the checkin date $Date:: $ d.) For the Authors name $Author:: $ See below an example how it looks like after keyword extention. Subversion Keywords $HeadURL:: $$Revision:: 11 $ $Date:: 2008-11-23 23:59:26 +0100 (So, 23 Nov 2008) $ $Author:: Ramachandran, Vishwanath $ 2: Changes in Subversion Client Prerequisite - have Tortoise installed. Start - Programs - TortoiseSVN - Settings Press on the button “Edit” The config file will be openend with a text editor. Find in the text the line with # enable-auto-props = yes Remove the # at the begin of the line Find the line: [auto-props] add below this line the following 3 new lines *.doc = svn:keywords=URL Rev Author Date *.xls = svn:keywords=URL Rev Author Date *.ppt = svn:keywords=URL Rev Author Date *.mm=svn:keywords= URL Rev Author Date Save the file. Examples for keyword expansion: Recommendation how to add Subversin Keywords for For Excel files: Add new Worksheet into each XL File and name it “Version info” 2. Add Subversion keywords into this new Sheet (with a lot of “empty spaces charactes as placeholders) 3. Result will be as shown in an example below. After checkin Subversion has