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SharePoint page design and web parts

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SharePoint page design and web parts

Modern SharePoint pages are built from web parts. Here's the kit and how to compose a good page.

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The page model

A page is a stack of sections. Each section has a column layout (one to three columns, plus full-width). Sections contain web parts — pre-built building blocks that pull in content of various kinds.

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The web parts most pages use

Beyond these, the marketplace and custom SPFx (SharePoint Framework) web parts extend further.

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Sections, columns, and layouts

A typical landing page layout:

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News, pages, and articles

A news post is a page with the "News" template — it appears in the site's News rollup and the hub's news feed. A regular page doesn't. Both have the same authoring experience. News digest lets a site owner email a curat…

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Brand and theming

A communication site can be themed at the site level (colours, fonts) and inherits from a hub if associated. Tenant-wide branding (logo, app launcher header, browser tab favicon) lives in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Web parts and Copilot grounding

Not every web part contributes equally to what Copilot can retrieve from a page. Text, Hero, and News web parts store genuinely extractable text that Copilot can ground answers on; Embed web parts (an iframe to an exter…

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