SharePoint Online People web part – How to use

This SharePoint tutorial, we will discuss what is a people web part in SharePoint Online and how to configure and use SharePoint Online people web part?

This web part in available in SharePoint Online modern sites, you can not get it on the classic SharePoint sites.

People web part in SharePoint Online

By using the SharePoint People web part we can display people profiles of users.

Once you hover on the user, you can see other information like contact information, files the user has worked on, etc.

Add People web part in SharePoint Online modern page

Open your SharePoint Online modern site and edit the page. Then click on the + symbol to add web parts to the page.

people web part in modern sharepoint
people web part in modern sharepoint

It will show all the web parts you can add to the web part page. You can search for the “People” Web Part and click on that.

People Web Part for SharePoint online
People Web Part for SharePoint online

This will add the web part you can see like below:

People Web Part for modern SharePoint site
People Web Part for modern SharePoint site

Here you can edit this Web Part. You can change the title from People profiles to Our Team Members.

Then you can enter the user name whose profile you want to show on the page.

 office 365 sharepoint web parts
office 365 sharepoint web parts

Here, you can see the user profile information like:

  • Email
  • Mobile
  • Phone number
  • Country etc.
People Web Part for SharePoint and Office 365
People Web Part for SharePoint and Office 365

This way you can also add more users y adding more people web part in the SharePoint Online site page.

Modern People Web Part SharePoint Online and Office 365
Modern People Web Part SharePoint Online and Office 365

Remove a profile from SharePoint People Web Part

Click on the Cross (X) icon to remove a profile or remove the profile web part from the SharePoint Online web part page.

Modern People Web Part SharePoint Online and Office 365
Modern People Web Part SharePoint Online and Office 365

We can also drag profile to a new location by holding the drag icon like below:

How to use People web part in SharePoint online

Edit People web part in modern SharePoint Online Site

Open the SharePoint Online People web part and click on the Edit web part icon like below:

SharePoint Online People web part
SharePoint online modern web parts

We can easily edit the People web part layout from the available layouts (Compact & Descriptive) like below:

SharePoint People web part layout
SharePoint online modern web parts

In the Compact layout, the People web part looks like below:

modern web parts SharePoint online Office 365
modern web parts SharePoint online Office 365

You can also change the SharePoint People web part layout to Descriptive like below:

SharePoint Online People web part layout
modern web parts SharePoint online Office 365

Once you change the Descriptive layout, the people web part looks like below:

Modern web part SharePoint online
Modern web part SharePoint online

We can also add a Profile link in the SharePoint Online people web part. Just click on the Add a Profile link and insert the Address and Save it like below.

SharePoint Online People web part
Add a Profile link in People web part

We can add the Description of the user like below.

People Web Part for modern SharePoint site
People Web Part for modern SharePoint site

Move People web part in modern SharePoint page

We can also more the people web part to another web part zone by clicking on the Move web part icon like below:

People Web Part for SharePoint and Office 365
People Web Part for SharePoint and Office 365

Delete People web part from SharePoint Online modern page

We can easily delete or remove the People web part from the SharePoint Online modern page by clicking on the Delete web part icon.

Modern People Web Part SharePoint Online and Office 365
Modern People Web Part SharePoint Online and Office 365

After publishing the Site, the SharePoint People web part will display like this screenshot.

new web parts in sharepoint online modern site
new web parts in sharepoint online modern site

If you are new to SharePoint Online modern experience, then you can read below SharePoint Online modern UI tutorials:

Conclusion

This SharePoint tutorial, we learned what is a people web part in SharePoint Online, how to configure and use SharePoint Online people web part.

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