SharePoint (Insider): Publishing Pages

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Publishing pages are simple web pages that exist within a SharePoint site that you can add text, formatting, images, and web parts to using familiar MS Word-like buttons. Publishing pages can be edited and published for view separately so that content is made “live” as the author decides. Also, publishing pages are automatically versioned so that an author can restore previously edited pages.

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Creating a Publishing Page

  1. Click the Settings icon. settings
  2. Click Add a page.
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  3. Type a name for the page.
  4. Click Create.
  5. Enter text in the Page Content section and add formatting using the text editor buttons found in the ribbon of the FORMAT TEXT tab.
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  6. Click the Save button found in the ribbon to save changes (only author/editors can view).
  7. Click the PUBLISH tab and then the Publish button found in the ribbon to publish changes (all readers can view).

Editing a Publishing Page

  1. Click the Settings icon. settings
  2. Click Edit Page.
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  3. Make changes to your page.
  4. Click the Save button found in the ribbon to save changes (only author/editors can view).
  5. Click the PUBLISH tab and then the Publish button found in the ribbon to publish changes (all readers can view).

View/Restore Previous Versions

  1. Click Site Contents in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click the Pages library.
  3. Click the ellipses icon next to the Name of the page’s version you would like to view/restore.
  4. Click Version History.
  5. Hover over the date of the version you wish to view/restore.
  6. Click the dropdown arrow that appears.
  7. Click View to view the version of the page.
  8. Click Restore and OK to make the selected version the current version.
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