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Modify Your SharePoint 2010 Team Site Home Page
- Browse to the home page of your team site and then click the Page tab in the Ribbon. The Ribbon displays a set of editing options for the web page.
- Click the Edit button in the Edit section of the Ribbon. The page appears in Edit mode.
On the SharePoint Ribbon, select the Page tab. Select Edit. Notice that all web parts on the page now display borders and are individually selectable. Move your mouse over the upper right corner of the web part you will edit.
(In SharePoint Designer 2010, if you want the same changes applied to all three list forms, you would have to customize the view, edit, and new form independently.) When you open a list in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 and look at the available forms for that list, you see three forms: DispForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, and NewForm.aspx
How to create custom edit forms in SharePoint?
SharePoint also provides the ability for power users or developers to customize these display/edit forms, using InfoPath. I am going to run through the steps to customize a SharePoint 2010 list, to create a custom display and edit form.
What are the forms in SharePoint Designer 2010?
When you open a list in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 and look at the available forms for that list, you see three forms: DispForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, and NewForm.aspx DispForm.aspx is used to display the properties of an item in the list.
In SharePoint designer, click on ‘Lists and Libraries’ and then click on the document library you want to apply the change to. Locate the ‘Forms’ section, typically on the right, in the middle. Click the ‘New…’ button.