Checkout TFS document through Word

Question

A client I am working for wants all documents we create for our project in source control (TFS). This includes requirements documents, design documents, etc.

Is there a way to check out a word document that is in TFS source control using Microsoft Word? I checked online and in Microsoft Word itself and did not see a way to do this.

I realize that I can check it out first using Team Explorer. It just seems to me that there would be a way to accomplish this in Word as well.

Answer 1

Support for TFS is not built into Word. But there are some third party plugins that do this. SmartOffice4TFS is one that I recently heard of, TeamSpec is another. But I have not used either before.

Answer 2

That functionality isn't available.. I don't know if it's going to ...

Here is the link that I found about it:

MSDN