Copy Webpart Pages between SharePoint Site Collections

Had a requirement to copy web part pages from one site collection to other. These options failed, I got the page with out any web parts placed:

• Explorer view copy paste
• Download a copy and upload
• SharePoint Designer copy-paste

The worked trick is: Using SharePoint Designer – “New from Existing Page”. Steps in Detail:

1. Open Both the Source and Target sites in SharePoint Designer

2. Right-click the source web part page and then choose “New From Existing Page”
  
 3. This will create a new page with the existing page’s content. Click on the Save button.

4. Now, Enter the target site’s location in Save dialog box, and then Save the file!

So Simple trick isn’t it?

Another approach if you have server access: You can use SharePoint Deployment Wizard utility to achieve the same. You can use SharePoint Designer workflow’s Copy Item action also!