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How can I add the "title" (banner) / title area to an existing page?
Hi, I created a page by copying another page. The existing page did not have the title bar with the background image. Is there a way to add this web part? I do not see it listed under the web parts...
DayanBoyce
Had the same problem. You may have copied your homepage (as I did), and it seems you cannot add a title area for that, see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/adding-a-title-on-a-sharepoint-homepage/cbb5e500-1448-4045-a62b-bc1ea95b7f1e.
Hi I found a way to manage!
You need to create a new webpage with (including) a title area. This you must select when creating the page. Name it "home_new.aspx".
Unfortunately now you need to add all the content of you old "home" to your "home_new" manually.
Afterwards rename your old "home.aspx" to "home_old.aspx".
Last step is to rename you newly created "home_new.aspx" to "home.aspx".
If your SharePoint is called now your new home.aspx (including title area) is opened.
You need to create a new webpage with (including) a title area. This you must select when creating the page. Name it "home_new.aspx".
Unfortunately now you need to add all the content of you old "home" to your "home_new" manually.
Afterwards rename your old "home.aspx" to "home_old.aspx".
Last step is to rename you newly created "home_new.aspx" to "home.aspx".
If your SharePoint is called now your new home.aspx (including title area) is opened.
- Hi Matt,
This is actually not the greatest solution.
Within a Site Collection, SharePoint recognizes linked pages by their ID, not the actual link (for some reason...). This means that even though you will swap the addresses, within the same Site Collection you will need to manually go through all places where the Home page was linked, and link it to the 'new page' (in fact, the same address), because it will be redirecting to the one with changed address. It can be handy in case you want to change address of page but in similar case as yours, it's a struggle.
It won't affect links that are used outside of sharepoint environment. But acutally, it's pretty hard to swap links for Home page because it's often linked in many places already...
