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Rising Star
Draft_v2_Final.ppt
Gotta have plausible deniability
Chief
YYMMDD - Client - Filename - v#
Chief
Proposal work or referencing prior cases years later
_vFinal, _vFinal2, _vFinal3……
Final_final_v3 is the correct answer
Rising Star
If you dig hard, you will find it in your firm’s training material. That will be xx mn. Thanks
This except I try my best notto hard code title versions if at all possible. Not always possible
Chief
Mark everything as v_final to keep people guessing
Pro
[Type of case]_[Client Name]_[Case Name]_[MMDDYY]_v[DRAFT/##/F]
Where
Type of Case = PR (proposal), CDD (Commercial due diligence), etc.
DRAFT = Live working doc
## = Prior version
F = Final Report
YYYY-MM-DD Client Project, v1, etc
So many people using underscores in file names makes me grind my teeth. Dashes forever!
Correct!
I tend to use alphanumeric characters
Software solved this problem decades ago. Teach your team to use git then they can always push/pull updates. File name no longer needs version info
Changes from year to year
Could be large email traffic or important documents.
Depends
Generally vx.y till the final
But with a big enough change it becomes va.b
What is purpose of underscore _ for file names. It was used several years ago due to MS versions, but I dont get it now.
Old habits die hard
Always default to client if possible, but I prefer the old system methods (i.e. Linux) like Client_FileType_FileName_DueDate_Rev. Gives me the option of sorting in one folder or zipping them with natural sort… I also recognize it’s pretty extra these days 😂
DRAFT _filename_vdate_vFFF_vFinal
Version1_draft
Name of Document (date)
CompanyName Title [Customer Name, TLP] YYYY[.]MM[.]DD
For example
Accenture Network Project Roadmap [Meta, TLP-AMBER+STRICT] 2024.04.02
Having company name up front is useless for me but I assume it to be helpful for my customers as they can immediately entity it as my work