May 28, 2026

How to Create a SharePoint Page (2026)

Sharepoint Microsoft 365 Pages How-to Intranet Productivity

Modern SharePoint pages are flexible — a homepage, a news post, a project hub, or a landing page for a policy can all be built with the same drag-and-drop editor. Here’s the workflow from blank canvas to published.

Step 1: Start a New Page

Open the SharePoint site that should own the page.
On the top bar, click + New > Page.

The template picker appears.

Step 2: Pick a Template

You’ll see a few groups:

Blank — empty canvas. Pick this if you know what you want.
Built-in templates — Basic, Visual, Topic, and a handful of others tuned for common page types.
From your organization — templates your tenant admin has published.
Saved templates — any layouts you (or a colleague) saved as templates from this site.

Click a template, then Create page.

Step 3: Set the Title and Hero

The page opens in edit mode with a title placeholder and a hero web part at the top.

Click the title area and type the page title.
Hover the hero image area and use the toolbar to Change image (upload from your computer, pick from the site, or use a stock image).
Use the title-area toolbar to switch the title layout (plain, plate, image, color block).

Step 4: Add Sections and Web Parts

SharePoint pages are built from sections (rows) that hold web parts (content blocks).

Add a section

Hover between existing sections — a + (circled) icon appears on the left edge. Click it and pick a layout: one column, two columns, three columns, one-third left, one-third right, vertical.

Add a web part

Inside any section, hover until the + icon appears, then click it. Common picks:

Text — formatted paragraphs
Image — single image with optional caption and link
Hero — large image carousel
News — auto-pulls posts from this site or others
List or Document library — embeds a live SharePoint list
Quick links — a tile grid of internal links
Highlighted content — a smart feed of documents/news matching a filter
People — show a profile card grid
YouTube / Stream — embed a video
Embed — paste an iframe or URL

Each web part has its own settings panel — click the pencil icon on the part to edit options.

Step 5: Preview and Publish

Click Preview (top right) to see the page as a reader will.
Back in edit mode, click Publish (top right).
In the publish panel, optionally:
- Add a page description (used in search snippets and link previews).
- Post as news to push it into the News feed and the home page News web part.
- Email or Copy link to share.

Optional: Save as a Template

If you’ll build similar pages again:

Open the published page in edit mode.
Click Save as draft > Save as template (in the top right menu).
Name the template. It now appears in this site’s template gallery for future pages.

Troubleshooting

”+ New > Page” is missing

You don’t have Edit access to the site. Ask the site owner to add you to the Members group.

Web parts won’t load

Refresh the page. If they still fail, an admin may have disabled that web part for the tenant. Check gear icon > Site information > View all site settings > Site features for disabled features.

The page is published but no one can see it

The page lives in the site’s Site Pages library and inherits its permissions. If site members have access but the page is in a custom library with unique permissions, fix the library permissions.

My news post didn’t show on the home page

The News web part filters by source. Open it in edit mode and confirm the News source is set to This site or Select sites that include yours.

Quick Reference

Action	Where
New page	Top bar > + New > Page
Add section	Hover between sections > + icon (left edge)
Add web part	Hover inside section > + icon
Change hero image	Click hero > toolbar > Change image
Publish	Top right > Publish
Make it news	In the Publish panel > Post as news

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