If you want to work offline, there may be documents that you want to refer to, create links to, or simply view but not edit. You do not need to check these documents out from the server, since you do not want to change them. In most cases, you may already have local copies of the documents that you may need or want if you accessed these documents while working online. However, in some cases, you might not have accessed some documents that you may want to have in your local data storage location when you go offline. In this case, you use the Get command to retrieve read-only copies of these documents before you go offline. 

If you are not able to identify the specific documents that you need to work offline, you can use the Get All command to download all documents in the Library to ensure that you have everything you need. However, this may take some time to download depending on the number of documents that need to be downloaded, their sizes, and the connection speed. When you use this command, there is no need to select any documents.

To get specific documents for offline use:

1. Identify the documents that you want to download locally and navigate to them using the Library or Outline Editor.
    
2. Select the document(s) or folder containing the documents that you want to download.
    
   You can select multiple documents using the standard Windows selection keys (CTRL+click and SHIFT+click).
    
3. On the Document menu, choose  Get.
    
   You can also right-click on your selection and choose Get.
    
   The Related Documents dialog box appears when you perform an action on any document that has links to other documents. You can choose to process only the document(s) you selected or to process your selection and all of the related documents.
    
   Click the View related documents link to display a list of the related documents if you are not sure whether you want to include related documents.
    
   After you have made your selection, click OK.
    
   You might also receive a message if some documents could not be processed because of other constraints. You can click OK to close the message box or click the View activity log link to view the results of the action.

To get all documents for offline use:

1. On the Document menu, choose Get All.

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