Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step

Checking Documents In and Out from the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite

Checking documents in or out by using the browser is a nice feature, but not nearly as useful as checking documents in and out using the Microsoft Office System. The 2007 Microsoft Office suite has built-in SharePoint integration, and you can easily check documents in and out using any of the Microsoft Office suite applications.

In the following exercise, you will open and check out a document from a SharePoint library in Office Word. You will make minor modifications to the document, save it, and then check it back in to the document library.

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