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Deleting a Web Part

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Deleting a Web Part

The flip side of course of adding Web Parts to your page is if you start to add a lot of them and your page gets a little busy, you may want to get rid of them. Well, how do you do that? Well, there are a couple of different ways here and they're quite different from each other. When I have a Web Part on my homepage or indeed any page, I'll often see that I have a triangle drop-down menu here. Now, this allows me to do what's called minimize. And if I click Minimize, it breaks me down to just the title bar of the Web Part. And this is one way we could at least make this a bit more presentable, that I could minimize and then restore the different Web Parts and have that, but that's not really what I'm after. What if I want to get rid of the Web Part? Well, I'm first going to restore these back to the way they were before, not that I really have to, but I'd like to. I'm going to come up to the Ribbon and shift into the Edit Page mode. Now, this time when I click that drop -down option…

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