Moving and Copying Between Different Sites

To move and copy pages between different sites or site collections, perform the following steps:

1. Open the source site in one instance of SharePoint Designer and then open the destination site in another instance of SharePoint Designer.

2. In each instance of SharePoint Designer, click the All Files tab.

3. Either copy (right-click the page and click Copy from the short-cut menu) or drag and drop to the destination library.

Note

Traditionally, maintaining page version history when moving files between SharePoint sites has been a challenge. In SharePoint 2007, document versioning was maintained by dragging and dropping documents between libraries opened in Windows Explorer. Copying and pasting does ...

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