SharePoint: Duplicate or Copy a Page

I created a web part page added a list view and then added content web part and created some CSS tweaks to the page. I then wanted to use those same tweaks but to a different view of the list. I needed to duplicate the page. SharePoint does not offer an easy way to do this. First I tried downloading the page, renaming it and re-uploading it. The re-uploaded page didn’t keep my web parts. This is how I did it:

Click on Site Actions

Click on Site Settings

Under Site Administration click on Content and structure.

You can now see a file structure of your site.

Click on the document collection that your page is in.

Check the check box beside the page you want to duplicate.

Click on Actions

Click on Copy…

Copy your page to another document library ( it wont let you copy to the same library).

Rename it and copy the renamed file back.

You have now duplicated the page!

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7 Comments

  1. Posted March 12, 2014 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    When I did this I ended up with an empty page. The master page had been applied and the web part zones were all there, but the web parts were all gone. I used to do this in SP Designer (FrontPage) in WSS 2.0, but SP Designer (with SP 2010) is not allowed at my current company. This can also be done with 3rd party tools like ControlPoint or AvePoint, with thr right permissions, of course.

  2. Posted September 18, 2015 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

    Nice! Thank you very much for this.

  3. Posted August 23, 2016 at 8:43 pm | Permalink

    This didn’t work for SP2013. As Paul mentioned earlier, I ended up with an empty page. I believe SharePoint’s webpart manager keep all references with the URL.

  4. Posted August 23, 2016 at 9:18 pm | Permalink

    I have to correct my previous comment. It will work if the versioning settings are same on both source and destination libraries. I made that change and it started working with exact steps provided in this post.

  5. Posted October 6, 2016 at 11:07 am | Permalink

    It is a great step by step instruction for copy a page.

  6. Posted November 21, 2016 at 8:43 pm | Permalink

    Thank you so much! These instructions were very helpful.

  7. Posted November 30, 2020 at 3:56 pm | Permalink

    Thank you VERY much! This is PERFECT!

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