TL;DR
SharePoint is introducing updates to the drag-and-drop experience. Due mid to late February 2025.
Details
If you are a SharePoint page editor and like to drag-and-drop, you can look forward to these updates:
- You may see more prominent ‘drop hints’ when moving web parts on the canvas. Drop hints will appear as a square or rectangle (1) when space allows or as lines when there is insufficient space.
- The cursor will change to an open and closed hand when using drag and drop to move web parts.
- Drop a web part on the plus button between sections to add a new one-column section to the page with the dropped web part.
- Replace images that exist on the canvas by dropping an image from the Toolbox on top of the pre-existing image.
- The default stock images on the Toolbox (2) will update based on the SharePoint page title.
Availability
Due mid to late February 2025.
Source, related links, and references
MC962525.
Image(s): Microsoft.
Suggested action
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Page originally published
6th January 2025 and kept up to date.
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