Until a recent update, SharePoint team sites always had a left side vertical navigation menu. Communication sites always had a top horizontal navigation menu that could be a cascading or mega menu style. Recently, Microsoft rolled out the ability to change a team site’s navigation from vertical (side) to horizontal (top).
Click to enlarge – Roadmap item for SharePoint Navigation Switcher.
Note: This change only applies to team site types. Communication sites are still top horizontal only.
Below are the steps to swap your team site’s navigation orientation. You must be a site owner to perform these steps.
How to change SharePoint team site navigation from left side to top
Navigate to the team site for which you’d like to switch the navigation orientation.
Click the settings wheel in the upper-right corner.
Select Change the look.
Select Navigation.
Choose Horizontal and then choose either Mega menu or Cascading for menu style.
Click to enlarge – Navigation switcher options for a SharePoint team site.
Creating conditional view formatting for your list and library views helps your colleagues find what’s important and more easily consume the information presented to them in the list or library. Learn how to configure conditional view formatting in this lesson.
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Views are a great way to create multiple “reports” or ways of viewing the data contained in a SharePoint list or library. For example, you may want one view for managers, and another view of the same data targeted towards everyday users. In this lesson, you’ll learn about columns and how they’re used to create specific views.
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Lists are one of the core components of SharePoint. Learn how to create a list and work with it in this video.
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Similar to how we can restore your OneDrive to an earlier time (see earlier lesson in this course), you can restore any specific SharePoint document library to an earlier time as well, undoing all changes made after the chosen restoration time.
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In this post, I’ll show how you can both delete and restore SharePoint Online sites.
Note: You must be a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint site owner to be able to delete a site, and only SharePoint administrators can restore them.
How to delete a SharePoint site
If you’re a site owner, follow these steps to delete your site:
Click the settings wheel in the upper right corner
Select Site information
Select Delete site
Check the confirmation box and then click Delete
If you’re a SharePoint administrator, you can follow these steps to delete a site:
Go to the SharePoint admin center (app launcher > Admin > SharePoint)
Select Sites > Active sites from the left navigation menu
Search or browse and select the site to delete
Select Delete from the top ribbon menu
Select Delete again in the dialog prompt
A video demonstration of both of these methods is below:
How to restore a SharePoint site
Deleted sites can only be restored within the first 93 days since its deletion. Otherwise, after 93 days, the site is permanently deleted.
Here are the steps a SharePoint admin can follow to restore a previously deleted site:
Go to the SharePoint admin center
Select Sites > Deleted sites from the left-hand navigation menu
Select the specific site to restore
Select Restore from the top ribbon menu
A video demonstration of these steps can be found below:
Learn how to upload existing files to SharePoint, create new files, and manage and organize your files in SharePoint document libraries.
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Uploading and managing files in SharePoint document libraries is a lot like managing your own files in your OneDrive. If you’re unsure on anything regarding files in SharePoint, be sure to go back and review the OneDrive lessons on file management, sharing, etc. as they’re quite identical.
SharePoint does add additional features and functionality to your document management abilities such as adding custom columns, multiple views, conditional formatting, and more. We’ll talk about these topics later in this chapter.
In this video, you’ll learn how to create a new team site for group collaboration in SharePoint Online.
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“Team sites are intended for smaller, more focused groups working within a shared interest area. Team sites are built on Microsoft 365 groups and give members edit access by default making it easy to get up and running as a team collaborating on documents, lists, and more in no time. Common team site scenarios are project teams, committees, intra-departmental collaboration and news, etc.”
Creating a team site creates a Microsoft 365 group which comes with a number of other resources including a shared mailbox and calendar.
Any team created in Microsoft Teams will also create a SharePoint team site in the background to support its files.
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to find and navigate SharePoint Online and what the two main site types are and how they’re typically used. There are 11 more lessons in this chapter in my course that cover documents, lists, pages, news, and more in detail.
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SharePoint empowers you and your team to create team sites and communication sites. The core components of each site (regardless of type) are lists, libraries, and pages.
Team sites are intended for smaller, more focused groups working within a shared interest area. Team sites are built on Microsoft 365 groups and give members edit access by default making it easy to get up and running as a team collaborating on documents, lists, and more in no time. Common team site scenarios are project teams, committees, intra-departmental collaboration and news, etc.
Communication sites are generally focused on a broader audience and used for distributing resources or news to that larger group. Communication sites are not built on Microsoft 365 groups but can use existing Microsoft 365 groups as a basis for membership. Common communication site scenarios are company intranets, HR sites, IT support sites, Crisis communication, Talent and development, etc.
Use the SharePoint app bar to easily get from one site to another, or return to the SharePoint start page.
You can also use the search bar at the top of your window to navigate to other apps or sites, or to find resources, files, people, and more.
Learn how you can undo any changes made in your OneDrive for Business library by using the Restore feature. You’ll be able to restore your entire library in one action to a point in time you specify.
This video is part of my FREE 30+ lesson self-paced online training course called Collaboration in Microsoft 365 (OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams). Enroll today at https://www.NateTheTrainer.com for the full learning experience including lesson discussions, quizzes, exams, and a completion certificate.
If you’ve been working in OneDrive and something has gone wrong, you can restore your entire OneDrive (undo all changes across all your files and folders at once) by using the Restore your OneDrive feature. You can restore to a specific time such as yesterday, a week ago, or a custom date/time. Every edit, deletion, etc. that’s reversible will be reversed.
While the restore is in progress, your OneDrive will be in read-only mode (for existing content) but you can continue to access the content, create or upload new content, and access your Shared content as well.
