Create and use modern pages on a SharePoint site

What would you like to do?

• Add and publish a page

• Customize the title area

• Help others find your page

• Edit your page

• Comments, likes, and views

• Save for later

• Send your page by email

• Delete your page

Add and publish a page

1. Go to the team site where you want to add a page. 

2. Go to the home page of the team site.

3. Click + New, and then select Page.

   

   Alternately, you can go to an existing page, click + New, and select Start from a blank page. Or, you can choose Copy of this page to create a new page that has the same web parts and content as the existing page.

4. Add a page name in the title area. A page name is required to save the page. See the Customize the title area.

5. Add web parts

   Hover your mouse below the title area and you'll see a line with a circled +, like this:

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   Click + to add content like text, documents, video and more. To learn more about how to find and use web parts, see Using web parts.

   

   You can also add sections and columns to a page. To learn more, see Add or remove columns on a page.

7. When you're done editing, you can click Save as draft to save your changes and close edit mode. Your audience won't see the page until you publish it. Only people with edit permissions on your site will be able to see it.

8. When you are ready for your audience to see the page, click Publish.

   For more information on publishing and the lifecycle of a page, see Management and lifecycle of a SharePoint modern page.

Customize the title area

You can customize the title area with an image, a choice of four layouts, text above the title, the ability to change the displayed author, and you can show or hide the published date.

• Add an image

  To add an image, click Add image in the toolbar on the left.

  Note: Images look best when they are landscape or 16:9 or greater in aspect ratio, and when they are at least 1 MB in size. For more information on image sizing, see Image sizing and scaling in SharePoint modern pages.

  Additionally, you can set a focal point to get the most important part of your picture in the frame. Click Set focal point in the toolbar on the left, and within the image, drag the focal point where you want it.
  
  

• Add, or change displayed page author

  In the title area, add a name, partial name, or email name in the author box. The name will be searched against your organization's profiles, and you will be presented with suggested people. Choose the one you want, and you're done! If you do not enter a name, an author byline will not show.

  

• Choose a layout

  Click the Edit web part button , and in the toolbox on the right, choose the layout you want:

  

• Set alignment

  If the toolbox isn't already showing, click the Edit web part button , and in the toolbox on the right, choose Left or Center.

• Add text above the title

  You can add text in a colored block above your title to qualify the title or call attention to something on the page, as in the example below where NEW is the text above the title. In newspaper jargon, this is called a kicker. The color of the block the text is in is based on your site theme.

  

  To add the text above your title, click the Edit web part button , and in the toolbox on the right, enter up to 40 characters of text in the Text above title box. Then, change the Show text block above title toggle to Yes.

• Show published date

  To show the latest published date of the page in the title area, slide the toggle under this option to Yes.

Help others find your page

The first time you publish your page, you'll be prompted to help others find your page. If you want to do this later, you can click Promote at the top of the page after the page is published.

You can use one or more of the following options:

• Add page to navigation: Adds a link to your page, using the page title, to the left-side navigation.

• Post as News on this site: Adds a News post to the Home page of your site. For more information on News, see Keep your team updated with News on your team site.

• Email: Allows you to send an email with a preview of the page and an optional message to your selected recipients.

• Copy address: The page address is shown so you can copy it and send to others.

Edit your page

To make changes to your page, do this:

1. Go to the site where your page is.

2. On the left side, click Pages.

3. Select your page.

4. Click Edit at the top right.

   When you click Edit the page is checked out to you. As long as the page is open for editing, or checked out, no one else can edit it. The page is "locked" until changes are saved or discarded, or until the page is published. An exception is that if the page has no activity for 5 minutes, the editing session will time out and the page will be "unlocked." 

5. Make your changes, and then choose Save and close to save your changes and close edit mode. If you're ready for users to see your changes, click Publish. For more information on publishing and the lifecycle of a page, see Management and lifecycle of a SharePoint modern page.

Comments, likes, and views

People who view your page can leave comments and likes at the bottom of the page. You can also see how many views your page has. Hover over Likes to see some of the people who liked your page. Click on Likes and you can see a list of all of the people who liked your page.

Save for later

People who view your page can find it more easily later by using the Save for later option at the bottom of the page. Once Save for later is clicked, it becomes Saved for later, and the associated icon is filled in.

When Saved for later is clicked, a list of Recently saved items is displayed. You can click See all saved items to see the entire list of saved items.

Send your page by email

When you use this feature, you can send an email that includes a link, thumbnail preview, description and an optional message to one or more people.

1. At the top of your page, click Send by email.

2. Enter the name(s) of the people you want to send to in the To: box, and add a message if you want.

3. Click Send.

Delete your page

1. Go to the site where your page is.

2. On the left side navigation, click Pages.

   If you don't see Pages on the left side, click Site Contents from Settings in the upper right, then on the left side of the Site Contents page, click Pages.

3. Select the page, and then click the ellipses (...) to the right of the selected page.

   

4. Click Delete.

   

Using web parts

Web parts are the building blocks of your page. You'll see them when you click the + sign on the page to add content to your page. For more information on the different types of web parts and how to use them, see Using web parts on pages.