Declining a Document

Important: Declining a document sends it back to draft status where the document owner must restart the review and approval process. You may want to consider starting a discussion thread first (see Starting a Document Discussion) to avoid unnecessary process delays.

With the document open that you've been assigned to review or approve, click Options, and then click Decline.

In the Decline window, type an explanation of why you're declining the document.

Important: You can't move on until you type an explanation.

(Optional) To add what you wrote to this document's discussion board, click Post to Discussion Board (see Working with Document Discussions for details).
Click Decline, and then click OK.