>I need to share Word and Excel documents over the web with other people on a project. One of the team members should be able to check out the document and others would know it is checked out.
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>Kinda like Visual Source safe but for documents and via the web.

I'm not sure I get the distinction you are making between documents and code.

AFAIK, VSS can be used to do this. With the Admin program, you can even set it up to operate over the web (although I have never done this).

HTH.