Page Layouts: XML Changes to Page Editing Tools

In SharePoint Server 2007, there were some additional options for customizing the page editing experience when working with publishing pages, including an option to add additional buttons to a publishing page editing menu. Several XML files were included in the root site of a site collection, which meant that you could adapt custom functionality on a site collection by site collection basis, including

• CustomEditingMenu.xml

• CustomQuickAccess.xml

• CustomSiteAction.xml

• RTE2ToolbarExtension.xml

The two main files used for manipulating the SharePoint Server 2007 editing toolbar were CustomEditingMenu.xml and RTE2ToolbarExtension.xml.

The aforementioned XML files are still present in SharePoint ...

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