Pin Document Libraries and Links in SharePoint

Owned by Dan Jakubiak
Last updated: Nov 08, 2023
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Faculty, staff, and students can pin Document Libraries and other web links to their SharePoint website. If a new Document Library was added to your SharePoint site, or if you have removed it from your navigation menu, you may manually add it to the menu.

Pining Document Libraries

  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/sharepoint and sign in with your UConn email address and NetID password.

  2. Click on your SharePoint site.

  3. Take a look at the navigation menu on the left side of the screen. This is where you may add new links.

  4. Before editing this menu, click on the settings gear at the top-right corner of the page.

  5. Click on Site contents.

  6. Next find your other Document Library in the list and click on the vertical ellipsis. Click on Settings.

  7. Find the URL of the Document Library and highlight it in order to copy the text.

  8. Once you have copied the link, click on EDIT LINKS on the left side of the page.

  9. Click on the plus sign to add a link. Enter the link and a name for the link.
    You can add any URL here. In this guide, we’re adding the Document Library’s URL.

  10. Click the new Save button under the links.

  11. Click on any of the links to visit them.

Pin other URL

You may pin any web link (URL) to this navigation menu.

  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/sharepoint and sign in with your UConn email address and NetID password.

  2. Click on your SharePoint site.

  3. Take a look at the navigation menu on the left side of the screen. Click on Edit.

  4. Hover your mouse between the two items in which you would like to insert a new link. Click on the plus sign.

  5. Enter a label for the link and then the link itself.
    Choose whether clicking on the link opens a new tab, or if the link will navigate you away from the current page.

  6. Click Okay and then Save.

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