How to Document a Flash Project

What are the best practices that developers or designers use
for documenting or configuration/content managing Flash projects? I
haven't been able to find anything within Flash that would, for
example, print out a list of elements and properties. Is there
anything that does that?
Very much appreciated,
Tom

Thank you for your reply, DZEdward. SInce you've posted 4386
times I must regard you as knowledgeable! So, I guess the answer is
that there is no real configuration management capability for
Flash. Oh my. I have taken over a Flash project that has a few
hundred elements -- what a mess.

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> cpu,
>
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>
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