> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.aversure.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Confirming answers > How to confirm and publish answers to questions After an answer has been submitted, it needs to be confirmed before becoming generally available to the users of the data room. ## Confirming an answer 1. Inside the data room, bring forward the Q\&A panel by pressing the **Q\&A** button below the folder tree. 2. Click on the **Needing my attention** selector or on a category selector. 3. Click on **Show** for the question to be confirmed. 4. [Place any files](/qa/placing-uploaded-files) that have been uploaded directly to the answer. 5. Click the **Confirm Answer and Publish** button to confirm the answer. * If multiple **Confirmation** steps have been added to the pipeline, the button will say **Confirm Answer** for all confirmation steps bar the last one. 6. Click the **Send back** button to send the question back to the preceding step in the pipeline (the *Answering step*). Confirm answer This step may be automated, as described on the page for the [Q\&A pipeline](/qa/qa-pipeline). ## Quick reference guide You may freely distribute the [Quick Reference Guide](/qa/qa-quick-reference) to users that have been tasked with confirming answers.