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- [Voiceover] SharePoint's Check Out and Check In feature gives you the ability to reserve a document for your own private editing session. When you check out a document from a SharePoint library, the file is then Read Only for everyone else, and you can edit at your leisure and then check the document back in, knowing that no one else has been able to edit it during the time you've been editing it. To check out a document, for example, the Landon Event LOA Outline, simply click the ellipsis for the menu... Click the menu here, go to Advanced and choose Check Out. Or, if that seems like the long way around the block, select the document... And on the ribbon, choose Files and choose Check Out. When you do, the icon for the document changes. It has a small downward pointing check and if you point to it it will show who it is who has that document checked out. With the document selected I can also go to More, Advanced, and Check Out if I wish. So, three different ways, two on the menu…

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