Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

4.5. Managing Your Documents with the Document Management Panel

Earlier in this chapter, you learned how to create a new document workspace. In the process of setting up this site, Word 2007 opened the Document Management panel. Word 2007 makes this panel available only when working with a document opened from a SharePoint library. If the panel does not automatically appear, you can manually open it by clicking the Office Button followed by Server and then Document Management Information. Figure 4-17 shows the open Document Management panel for one of the purchase order documents.

Figure 4.17. Displaying the Document Management panel when editing a SharePoint library document

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If you want the Document Management panel to automatically ...