SharePoint 2016 End User

SharePoint 2016

Lesson 1 – Accessing and Navigating SharePoint Sites

S HARE P OINT W INDOWS 8 S TYLE UI One of the most noticeable changes in SharePoint 2013 from previous versions is the new user interface (UI). The interface is redesigned to be a Windows® 8 style UI. The Windows 8 style was formerly called the Metro style. The UI is simplified, offering blocky style graphics, and extensively uses typography, straight lines and whitespace. This makes SharePoint 2013 sites look different from SharePoint sites created in previous versions. Gone are the frames that section off the various portions of the UI, there is more blank space, and elements for navigation and application access are called out prominently. S HARE P OINT I NTERFACE E LEMENTS Microsoft SharePoint provides a user interface (UI) that makes finding information and navigating SharePoint sites, pages, and apps easy. There are several interface elements that you should become familiar with and they are listed in the following table.

Figure 1 – 3: SharePoint interface elements.

INTERFACE ELEMENT

PURPOSE

Header

The header spans the entire top of the page in a SharePoint site and provides access to several SharePoint features. On the right portion of the header, you can access your personal Newsfeed, OneDrive®, and MySite. On the far right of the header you can see the user account that you are logged into the site with, and access the Settings menu and Help button.

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