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Adding a picture to Page Text Webpart
ChrizK the example you gave with the ribbon was an older on-premise version of SharePoint, either 2010 or 2013. Although modern SharePoint Online shares some of the backend look and some of the features of the the older products you really need to think of it as a totally different platform. There is no way on a modern site to have text wrapping around an image. There is the text web part, there is the image web part but there is no image & text web part.
You only get the full width web part if you have created a Communication site rather than created for example a team site then converted it to the modern UI.
The graphic > text > graphic > text in the article about sections wasn't 4 columns, it was a news web part set in a one column section with the news layout set to side by side. There is then a vertical column on the right.
The options you have for the layout of columns is limited to the options Microsoft provides and you cannot set the width. The reason for that is that the page is responsive so will adjust itself depending on the screen width.
Unless you go down the route of custom development or SPFx (which we're not allowed to use at my company so I know very little about it) then unfortunately you have to live with the more restrictive way of laying out pages than we had before.
Rob
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Thanks for the detailed reply RobElliott .
It is great to have a fully qualified answer, even if it "you can't".
The example wasn't from me, but someone who was attempting to answer my question.
It is somewhat annoying that the old implementation of Sharepoint allowed so much more flexibility, and IMO, the new is so restrictive it ties people hands behind their backs to the detriment of creativity (and arguably clarity).
I will have to investigate multiple News Web Parts, to see if I can get a modicum of flexibility.
I haven't even looked at these yet, and assume they allow a picture to be added to the left of a news article ...but perhaps the wording has to fit to the height of the picture...
NB Appreciate what you are saying about the dynamic page layout, but I would guess there could be a way of giving the page designer a way of choosing how many columns, and the proportion to each. That said, if MS don't allow us to place a picture where we want, there will be little chance of them providing this as a feature. Seems like they are dumbing down the product purely for simplification for the masses.
ChrizK "It is somewhat annoying that the old implementation of SharePoint allowed so much more flexibility"
To be fair to Microsoft there is some method in the madness here although it does sometimes seem that we've taken a step backwards. Microsoft are doing continual upgrades (at least in theory). Their view is that they don't want user s to have massively-customised sites that might break when a new feature is rolled out.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User