Force users to check out document to edit the document

[Kathleen]

Hi Everyone - Good Day, huh?
We are using MSP2003, WSS2 and wondering if we can force the users to check
out documents rather than open the documents from the link. We want to force
the user to check out the document prior to opening it and if they click the
link to only get the Web view (which precludes edits) The problem arises
from users not checking out the document and other users editing it at the
same time. Our process is to checkout the file, then edit in (from the
dropdown) however not everyone follows this and so I need your help.
Thank you
Kathleen

 

[Rod Gill]

This is pure SharePoint, so I think it's a training issue to get users to
select Edit from the dropdown.

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[Kathleen]

Hi Rod - thank you for the response. We have trained and trained and of
course some users will not comply. Sounds like we will just have to keep
trying. I see that this issue is addressed in 2007 so if and when we migrate
this will not be an issue.
Thanks again. There are some blogs about adjusting script to enable this -
would you caution against that? Have you tried it?
Regards,
Kathleen