In SharePoint historically the Library level Information Management Policy have been used to link Version, Approval Status and other column metadata into Office Word application has used the Labels feature to add these.
And in this article the depreciation of the feature is confirmed along with the communication not to use this in SharePoint 2013 and 2016.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/SharePoint/governance/information-management-policy-planning
Are there alternatives that do not use Automate or workflow, available as an alternative to allow a Word Document to use these SharePoint fields? In my research and testing I have followed a few techniques to replicate a separate version column and sync this to the SP Version viw Automate - However, the workflow and writing to a column causes the SP version to be incremented. This approach is not therefore stable or controlled.
Is there therefore, a supported simple alternative?
Thanks
