SharePoint 2016 For Dummies

Chapter 5

Working with Web Pages

IN THIS CHAPTER

Choosing between wiki pages and Web Part pages

Creating new wiki pages

Adding media to your wiki pages

Creating new Web Part pages

How many times have you heard, “We need the team to get on the same page?” Well, no problem if you’re using SharePoint. If you’re a facilitator, communicator, and/or have a creative streak, you need this chapter. Although SharePoint gives you a lot of helpful tools to work with content, the ability to communicate effectively with your team, starting with a customizable home page, pulls everything together.

Web pages and Web Parts let you arrange and present information in a collaboration site. Pages can display freeform text, tables, hyperlinks, and images, as well as Web Parts showing app content from your site (or other sites!) arranged as you want. Web Parts can be closed temporarily or moved. You can modify the Web Parts to show only the data you want from an app. You can inform, organize, and focus your team with your pages, something that otherwise would take a lot of effort with emails and network shares.

In this chapter, we show you how to work with web pages. In Chapter 6, we go into more detail about working with Web Parts.

Introducing the Ribbon

In order to edit the contents of a SharePoint 2016 page, you need to access the Ribbon. The Ribbon is tucked away in the header of the SharePoint 2016 team site and is accessed by clicking the Page tab. When you click the Page tab, the header ...