I manage a set of documents which are edited in Word but "published" as PDFs (using Word 2010's save to PDF capability).
I want to create a library for them on SharePoint (my company has SharePoint Online via its Office 365 subscription).
I'm pretty much a SharePoint novice but even I can see it's easy to upload the documents to a simple library. The things that are giving me a headache are:
- Can I tell SharePoint what the version number of the uploaded PDF document is? The version number as understood by the library needs to match the version number written into the document (where it is called a revision number and increments in whole numbers starting from zero).
- How do I handle replacing the uploaded PDF documents with new versions? If they were Word documents I could edit them by opening them from the SharePoint library, checking them out if necessary, and SharePoint would handle version control. But since the PDFs are generated from editable masters (Word documents) which are NOT on SharePoint I would need to edit the local Word document on my PC then generate a PDF version then upload it to replace the existing PDF document in the library. Is it easy to upload a new document over the top of an old in a SharePoint library?
Hoping someone can give me some answers.
Regards,
Bruce Officer