Introducing SharePoint design ideas

We are excited to introduce new SharePoint design ideas feature with AI powered suggestions for improving the structure of your SharePoint content. With this feature, authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft SharePoint to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart.

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Design ideas identify the text and webpart content of the section you are currently authoring, and suggesting new layouts, backgrounds, text formatting, and image webparts to enhance your section. The author then clicks on the suggestions to try and apply different ideas.

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When you click into a new section with one blank text webpart, Design ideas will offer you formatting options you can add to get started.

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Once your section has additional content, Design ideas will then summarize your text to provide appropriate image webpart and background suggestions, along with basic text formatting.

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When you first start an editing session, a red dot will appear in the design ideas content pane pivot to let you know it has ideas available. Click on this pivot to open the design ideas panel.

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Upon this first release, Design Ideas will only be available for the following sections containing:

• 1 Banner webpart
  
• 1, 2, and 3 text webparts
  
• 1, 2 and 3 text and image webparts
  
• 1 blank text webpart
  

Features and capabilities mentioned in this blog post, are demonstrated in the following video with Sara Cummings (Microsoft) and Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft).

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When will this happen?

The feature starts rolling out to customers in August 2024 and will be available gradually worldwide by end of September.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124846.

How this will affect your organization:

Authors will now be able to use Design ideas on their compatible sections.

What do you need to prepare?

You do not need to do anything to prepare for this update, but you may want to let your users know about this improvement.

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• Additional features and capabilities with support on new web parts which the design ideas can detect.
  
• Content update suggestions for the long texts, for example copied from Word documents.
  

and more...

Thanks for reading. Please enjoy making beautiful pages with the design ideas and let us know any feedback or questions in the comments.

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