How to select Personal View or Shared View in SharePoint 2007
This seems like it should be easy, but a lot of people still cannot find where to modify the SharePoint pages in Personal View and Shared View. Most people can find how to modify the page in Shared View and are notified by a message saying they are editing in Shared View like below. They simply select the obvious Site Actions button.
Let’s take a quick look at where you did this in SharePoint 2003. If you know where it is in SharePoint 2003 look below for SharePoint 2007.
Personal and Shared Views in SharePoint 2003
In SharePoint 2003 you selected the Shared and Personal View in the same location.At the top of the menu it identified which version of the page you were working on.
Notice there was no way to exit this mode without clicking on another page such as Home.
Personal and Shared Views in SharePoint 2007
Now in SharePoint 2007 the menus for Site Actions (Shared – highlighted in RED) and Individual Actions (Personal – highlighted in GREEN) are in two different menus.
1) To edit the page in Personal View select the drop down of the user you are logged in with. Such as Welcome Brendon Schwartz
2) To edit the page in Shared View select the Site Actions menu.
3) Notice also that in either Personal View or Shared View that you now have the option to Exit Edit Mode
