Check out a CS document

When you need to update a CS document, you must make sure that no other users can update the document at the same time. To do this, check the document out of the library and store it on your local file system. You also have the option of checking out a document and immediately opening it in its registered application. While the document is checked out, other users can view the document, but they cannot update it.

A appears next to a checked out document on the Browse and Search pages. A list of documents checked out to you appear in the checkout list.

You cannot check out compound documents and published documents.

You must have Author or higher access rights to check out a document.

To check out a document

  1. Locate the document by browsing or searching.

  2. Select the document. You cannot check out a document that is already checked out by another user.

  3. Do one of the following:

  1. Navigate to the folder where you want to store the checked out document.

  2. Enter the file name for the checked out document (the default is the document's original file name), and then click Save.


See also

Cancel a checkout

Check in a document