How to fix Web Part problems

If a web part or web part connection is corrupted or did not install properly might be a little bit tricky to remove or update the web part as you usually do.
Sometimes, you will receive "Unexpected error has occurred" message, or a "#" symbol will be added at the end of your aspx page URL avoiding you to remove or update the corrupted web part in the "normal" way.

There is an easy way to fix the corrupted web part by adding "?Contents=1" at the end of the Address Bar as showing in the following example:
http://SiteName/Page.aspx?Contents=1

The Page.aspx is the aspx page where your web part is placed on.
The SiteName is the name of the site where the page that contains your web part is.

 Once you include the "?Contents=1" at the end of your Address Bar, you will be redirected to the Web Part Maintenance page (You must have the appropriate permissions to use the Web part Maintenance Page).
Now, make sure that you are in the right view (personal or shared view) and switch between the views if not.
Then, you just have to select the Web part that you want to fix (sometimes it shows with the "Error" word in red instead of the web part name) and do one of the following:
  • To permanently delete the Web Part, click on the Delete button
  • To Move the web part to the Web part Page gallery, click on the Close button
  • To remove personal property values and revert to the shared property values of the web part, use the Reset button.




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