Document Checked out to user no longer with company

I have a document that is checked out by a user no long with the company. However, I cannot discard checkout because there are required metadata fields this user did not populate so it's locked out strictly to them. There is already a checked in version of this document so I cannot use the feature to manage documents with no checked in version.

How can I take ownership of this document so I can delete it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

February 21st, 2014 10:57am

If you are an admin, you should be able to drop down the ECB menu and "Discard checkout".

  • Proposed as answer by croute1 17 hours 11 minutes ago
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February 21st, 2014 11:02am

I agree the site collection admin should be able to check the document back into SharePoint
February 21st, 2014 2:28pm

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