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SP2010 – Now possible to change your page layout on the fly?
Wow, this seems like an interesting and much requested feature I just discovered in SharePoint 2010. It seems you can now change the page layout of an existing page! Maybe this is old news already, but I hadn't heard anything about it yet.
So we have our regular article page right here:
SP2010 Article Page
When you expand the Page Layout button on the ribbon, you get this:
SP2010 Change Page Layout
Let's for example select Blank Web Part page as the new layout for our page. SharePoint then takes the new setting, doesn't perform a post-back anymore, AJAX is very nicely integrated now:
SP2010 - Changing Page Layout
When SharePoint is done processing the changes, our page is now a web part page instead of the article page it was before!
- SP2010 - Web Part Page
Edit:
The functionality isn't completely bug-free yet. After playing around with a couple of different page layouts, I'm suddenly getting this error:
- SP2010 Change Page Layout Error
Obviously the product is still in beta, I'm sure this will be fixed in the final version 
August 31st, 2010 - 20:05
no its not fix :p