Checking Documents In and Out from the Document Library

One of the features provided by Windows SharePoint Services is basic document management. Checking out and checking in documents lets others know what documents you are working on so that they don’t work on them at the same time. When using check-in, you can also enter comments about what you’ve changed that others can then view.

In the following exercise, you will change the comments in a document to reflect that this is the final version of the document.

Note

USE the practice file Oakchest.docx in the practice file folder for this chapter. The practice file is located in the Documents\Microsoft Press\SBS_WSSv3\Chapter 05 folder.

OPEN the SharePoint site from which you’d like to check in or ...

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