Category: News

Text

Use the Text web part to add paragraphs to your page. Standard formatting options like styles, bullets, indentations, highlighting, and links are available.

Highlighted content

Use this web part to dynamically display content based on content type, filtering, or a search string. You can also set the scope of the search to a site or site collection sort the results. Here’s how:

1. Click + and then select the Highlighted content web part.
2. Click the edit button and select your options.

Site Activity

This web part automatically shows recent activity on your site, such as files uploaded, edits made, lists and libraries created, and so on. Just add the web part, and the latest activity is pulled in automatically.

Document

Use this to insert an Excel, Word, or PowerPoint, or .PDF document on the page. Users will see the starting page of the document in a frame, and can scroll through the pages or even download the document. Here’s an example of a PowerPoint presentation on a page:

To add a document to your page, do this:

1. Click + and then select the Document web part.
2. Click Add a document.
3. Choose a recent document, or browse, upload, or use a link to insert the document you want.

   NOTE: Users can click to see options for the document including Download a Copy, Print to PDF, and Embed code (to see the code used to embed the document on the page).

Click the edit button to specify settings for the document.

Image

Use this to insert an image on the page, either from your site or your hard drive.

1. Click + and then select the Image web part.
2. Click Add an image.
3. Choose a recent image, or browse, upload, or use a link to insert the image you want.

Office 365 Video

Use this to display a video right on the page from your organization’s Office 365 Video portal.

1. Click + and then select the Office 365 Video web part.
2. Click Add video.
3. In the toolbox on the right, click Go to your organization’s video portal to find the video you want, and then paste the link for the video into the box.

Content Embed

You can display content on your page from other sites like Bing maps and YouTube videos. Depending on the site, you can either use the site’s address or embed code that the site provides. For more information, see Add content to your page using the Embed web part.

1. Click + and then select the Embed web part.
2. Click Add embed code.
3. In the toolbox on the right, add an URL to the web site or the embed code from the site.

Quick links

You can “pin” items to your page for easy access.

To do this:

1. Click + and then select the Quick links web part.
2. Click + Add.
3. In the toolbox on the right, either select an item from the list, or add a link to a page or file you want to pin under Create link to.

You can open the pinned item, move it to change the order of items shown, edit the link or title, or unpin by clicking the ellipses (…) at the bottom right of each item.

News headlines and News list

If you removed the News from your Group team site page, you can add it back. Or, you can add it to a different page. To do this, you can use the News headlines or News list web parts.

1. Click Edit at the top of the page.
2. Click the + sign.
3. To add the News with the large image space and three additional stories like that which is shown as default on the home page, select News headlines.

   To add a simple list of news stories without the large image space on the left, select News list.

   NOTE: For more information on how to work with the News features, see Keep your team updated with News on your Group team site.