Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Working with Document Libraries

Working with document libraries involves tasks like the following:

• Adding a document to the library

• Checking out a document so you can edit it

• Checking the edited document back into the library

• Managing versioning for documents stored in the library

• Using permissions to control what users can do with versions

• Marking documents as final when you’re finished working with them

This section will examine how to perform these various tasks.

Opening a Document Library

Before you can work with documents stored in a SharePoint document library, you first need to open the library. Do this, follow these steps:

1. Log on to the SharePoint site where the document library you want to work with is located.

2. If the document library you want to ...