To
change the display, you must view the page in editing mode—a mode that
enables you to edit the page. You can make such changes after you
switch to editing mode.
When you have the
permissions to edit a page, and if the page is not currently checked
out by someone else, you edit the page by navigating to it in the
browser, opening the Site Actions menu, and choosing Edit Page, as
shown in Figure 1.
Note
If the page is checked out to another user, the Edit Page menu option is not available until that page is checked in.
When
the page is in editing mode, it looks different than it looks normally,
showing either web part zones (where you can add web parts) and/or
editing controls, depending on the type of page.
For example, a wiki page by default has only the page body control—a
control in which you can type. Publishing pages may have additional
controls, depending on their layouts, while web part pages show web
part zones to allow you to add web parts, as well as the existing web
parts for you to edit.
When you are finished
editing the page, save your changes. How you do this depends on the
configuration of the library the page is in. In libraries that do not
keep track of page versioning and do not require checking in or
checking out the page, you can just click the Stop Editing button on
the Page ribbon. In libraries that maintain version control over pages,
use the Save & Close button in the Page ribbon, along with a Check
In button. If publishing is required in the document library, you have
a Publish ribbon with buttons for publishing the page after you check
it in.
