change where Authoring information and Publishing options Checkbox is displayed
In the admin/content page 
1. at the top there is filters provided to sort content by number of options like for e.g filter by content type, published or unpublished.
2. then below that there is drop down containing list of actions like "publish selected content", "delete selected content", etc
3.You can select the check box corresponding to the content you want the action to perform and submit.