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Stock-based Compensation (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] |
Summary of the total compensation expense and the associated income tax benefits recognized related to stock-based compensation arrangements | A summary of total stock-based compensation expense and the related income tax benefits recognized during the three-month and nine-month periods ended December 31, 2016 and December 26, 2015 is as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended |
|  | December 31, 2016 |  | December 26, 2015 |  | December 31, 2016 |  | December 26, 2015 |
|  | (millions) |
Compensation expense |  | $ | 14 |  |  | $ | 25 |  | (a) | $ | 46 |  |  | $ | 79 |  | (a)
Income tax benefit |  | $ | (5 | ) |  | $ | (10 | ) |  | $ | (17 | ) |  | $ | (30 | ) |
(a) | Includes approximately $9 million of accelerated stock-based compensation expense recorded within restructuring and other charges in the Company's consolidated statements of operations during the three-month and nine-month periods ended December 26, 2015 (see Note 8). All other stock-based compensation expense was recorded within SG&A expenses.
Summary of the stock option activity under all plans | A summary of stock option activity under all plans during the nine months ended December 31, 2016 is as follows:
|  | Number of Options
|  | (thousands)
Options outstanding at April 2, 2016 |  | 2,418 |
Granted |  | — |
Exercised |  | (83 | )
Cancelled/Forfeited |  | (557 | )
Options outstanding at December 31, 2016 |  | 1,778 |
Restricted Stock And Service Based Restricted Stock Units [Member] |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |
Summary of restricted stock and restricted stock unit activity | A summary of restricted stock and service-based RSU activity during the nine months ended December 31, 2016 is as follows:
|  | Number of Shares
|  | Restricted Stock |  | Service-based RSUs
|  | (thousands)
Nonvested at April 2, 2016 |  | 14 |  |  | 490 |
Granted |  | — |  |  | 670 |
Vested |  | — |  |  | (152 | )
Forfeited |  | — |  |  | (132 | )
Nonvested at December 31, 2016 |  | 14 |  |  | 876 |
Performance Shares [Member] |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |
Summary of restricted stock and restricted stock unit activity | A summary of performance-based RSU activity during the nine months ended December 31, 2016 is as follows:
|  | Number of Shares
|  | Performance-based RSUs — without TSR Modifier |  | Performance-based RSUs — with TSR Modifier
|  | (thousands)
Nonvested at April 2, 2016 |  | 691 |  |  | 142 |
Granted |  | 428 |  |  | — |
Change due to performance/market condition achievement |  | (14 | ) |  | (25 | )
Vested |  | (216 | ) |  | (49 | )
Forfeited |  | (92 | ) |  | (7 | )
Nonvested at December 31, 2016 |  | 797 |  |  | 61 |

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