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Adding a Web Part

Adding a Web Part - SharePoint Tutorial

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Adding a Web Part

A typical SharePoint page is not just made of blocks of text and images. it's also very, very common that on these pages that you'll edit, you'll these pieces called Web Parts. Well, what are Web Parts? We have actually one of them right now. I'm going to shift into my Edit Page Mode by clicking this Edit Page button and then come down to the section that says Shared Documents and just click on the white bar beside the word Shared Documents, and you see how this gets surrounded by a blue box here and in fact, as I did that, I have a new option up here called Web Part Tools. Well the blue box is actually representing the fact that this is a Web Part. Now Web Part is a self- contained piece of a webpage. You can't use a Web Part by itself. It has to be inside a webpage, but it has its own rules. It has its own abilities. It has its own behavior. But what are they? These are modular pieces. They can be very simple, they can be very complex, but they often represent pieces that exist…

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