SharePoint 2016 End User

Lesson 1 – Accessing and Navigating SharePoint Sites

SharePoint 2016

QUICK LAUNCH AREA COMPONENT

DESCRIPTION

Site Navigation Links

Links to specific pages, lists, libraries, and apps on the site and potentially other sites. These links allow for quick navigation to commonly accessed content and information. Displays all the lists, libraries, apps and subsites on the site. You can select any of them to go directly to the component you wish to use. Allows administrators and site designers to add, remove, edit, and reorder the links in the Quick Launch area. This link is not visible if you do not have the appropriate permissions.

Site Contents Link

EDIT LINKS

T HE P AGE S ECTION The page section is the area of the page to the right of the Quick Launch area, under the header and the ribbon. The page section contains the content for that page on the SharePoint site. It can contain one or more SharePoint lists, libraries, and apps depending on how content is laid out for the site. You may find that all the page objects fit on the screen at the same time, or you may have to scroll left to right or down in order to see all the objects on the page. Site administrators and designers may organize content differently based on organizational and user needs. Get to know the layout of the SharePoint sites you use, and provide feedback to administrators and site designers if you feel the layout could be improved to make everyday tasks easier.

Figure 1 – 8: The page section.

S HARE P OINT L ISTS , L IBRARIES , AND A PPS SharePoint provides components that can be added to your SharePoint site to enable a desired set of functionality. For example, a document library can be added so that a team has a central

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