This page cannot be edited in SharePoint Designer

By peter.stilgoe





If you are getting this error its because you are trying to edit a publishing page. To edit a publishing page you will need to first detach it from its ‘Master Page Layout’, now you can edit it as you wish but any changes to the master layout obviously will no longer apply to this page.

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Need to edit a sharepoint page but there is no edit option

By peter.stilgoe





You need to edit a page in Sharepoint but the ‘Edit’ option is greyed out for example on a survey page.

Simply append NewForm.aspx with ?ToolPaneView=2 so it looks like

/NewForm.aspx?ToolPaneView=2

You now have your page in edit mode so you can add webparts etc

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