Page Version History and Restoring Pages from Versions

The Page Version History part enables you to view the page’s versions and revert to an earlier version. By default, libraries based on the Wiki Page library, including Site Pages, have versioning enabled. The ability to switch to an earlier version can often save the day! This is especially true where you have many content authors authoring the same page. I have seen an entire page stripped (accidently) of content. Without versioning, this would have meant restoring the site from an actual backup.

To access the full wealth of page version history options, shown in Figure 12.31, click the hyperlinked Version History title on the Version History part. You also get the same ribbon options if ...

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