Can i allow users to edit word and visio documents from the document library and publish them again

Question

I am working on a publishing site collection, and I have a document library which contains Microsoft Word and Microsoft Visio files. Is there a way to allow users to do the following :

1. Select a document from the SharePoint document library.
2. Click on Edit.
3. Open the document using their client program either Word or Visio.
4. Modify the document contents.
5. Directly publish the new file to the SharePoint document library again?

Can anyone advise if this is possible? When I try this from my machine, there is no option inside the Word document or inside Visio to publish to SharePoint. I can only save the document locally and not on the SharePoint server. Any advice?

Answer 1

There is no "Publish" you just save the document and it will default to the source Library. If they edit it in the browser it will save back to the Library as well. The user has to have sufficient permissions to perform the task, in this case they need Edit rights.