Any 3rd party solutions for reports management?

We have a small IT team, trying to manage a lot of reports.  We have 3 people that create reports.  Right now there are about 400 reports that are actively being used.  The problem is that up until now we have not had documented standards for report design and no documentation on the reports that have been created.  I am new to the company and am trying to get the reports under control.  I'm a relative newbie when it comes to Crystal.
We really have several issues. The 2 most critical are:
gathering documenation on what views, tables, etc. are used in our reports (any way to do that without going into each report, one by one?)
Standardizing the look and feel of each report.
I have been able to put in a report counter which updates a record in our database everytime the report is run so I can target the more important reports, as well as finding reports which are not utilized.
Any ideas?  The first idea I had, was to hire someone to solely focus on reporting issues, but that's nto going to happen.
Scott

Hi Scott,
One option that quite a few of our customers use is a tool called Source Safe. It's the control program that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio. It allows you to check in and out code and manage changes. It can also be used for files like Reports.
Check Microsoft's site for more info on how to and what it can do...
Others may have suggestions also.
Thank you

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