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Collaborating on (Helping to Write) a Document or Questionnaire (for assigned writers)

If you've been assigned the writer role, a document owner can assign you to help write a document or questionnaire. The document owner may assign you to write all of the document/questionnaire or only parts of it. Or, the document owner may just want you to edit the document/questionnaire to check for subject matter accuracy or grammatical correctness.

When a document owner assigns you as a document's/questionnaire's writer and then submits the document/questionnaire to you, you receive an email notification with the subject, 'Writing collaboration required: "[document/questionnaire title]."' The task is also added to My Tasks.

Do one of the following to open a document or questionnaire you've been assigned to write:

Open the task notification email, and then click the link.

Click My Tasks, click the Collaborate heading to show those tasks, and then click the title.

Write the document/questionnaire, or your portion of it. See the following topics for detailed instructions:

Writing a Document

Adding Questions and Answers to a Questionnaire

When you're finished working on an assigned document/questionnaire, do one of the following:

If you're not finished writing and plan to come back to the document/questionnaire later, click Save and Close.
If you're finished with your writing assignment, click Finished Writing

(Optional) In the Finished Writing window, type comments for the document owner.

Note: To add what you wrote to this document's/questionnaire's discussion board where all assignees can see it, click Post to Discussion Board (see Working with Discussions for details).

Click Save, and then click OK.