Under Customize the Ribbon, select Main Tabs. On the File tab, select Options and choose Customize Ribbon. If you need to add the Developer tab, here's how. To add controls, you use the Developer tab on your ribbon. Select OK when done. After you convert the document or template, save it. To use content controls, you must convert the document to the Word 2013 file format, To do that, go to the File tab, select Info and choose Convert. Note: If content controls are not available, you may have opened a document or a template that was created in an earlier version of Word. If you allow editing to the drop-down list, other people can change the list options to meet their needs. Make your templates flexible by adding and configuring content controls, such as rich text controls, pictures, drop-down lists, or date pickers.įor example, you might create a template that includes a drop-down list. You can also save building blocks and distribute them with templates.įor example, you may create a report template that provides your template users with two cover letter types to choose from when they create their own report based on your template. Set or change the properties for content controlsīuilding blocks are reusable pieces of content or other document parts that are stored in galleries to be accessed and reused at any time. Behind the scenes, it will create a major version (just FYI).Insert a text control where users can enter text.So head over to the page, check it out, make sure the restored look and feel is what you wanted, then just hit Republish to make it visible to everyone else.This allows you to check it out before making it official. Again, what that means is that the page is restored, but not published. You will notice a minor version appear (not a major one) – for example, in my case it is 49.1. When you get the warning pop-up, click OK.Click the drop-down next to the version you would like to restore, then choose Restore.
It works just like in Microsoft Word, pretty much reverts back 1 step at a time. If you were editing the page and did something stupid (i.e., deleted a web part you did not mean to or changed the layout of the page), you can easily go back using the Undo button. How to restore and undo the changes on SharePoint Pages while editing the page Please check out this most recent blog post for the new instructions. While the instructions in this post are still fines, there is now a new, modern way to restore the previous versions of the pages. Since I originally published this post, Microsoft had updated and modernized the Restore experience. The cool thing is – you can easily restore and undo the changes on SharePoint Pages. However, what that also means is that it is super easy now to mess things up, by deleting web parts and text you or someone else worked on. I demonstrated previously how easy it is to build a page. It is something your mother can do now without needing to have a Ph.D. It has now become straightforward to edit pages, add text and web parts. The arrival of the modern SharePoint pages has really simplified the editing process for SharePoint sites.