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SharePoint Online: Modern UI vs Classic UI Pages

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Introduction

This article is explaining the difference between Modern UI Pages and Classic Pages of SharePoint. Modern UI is the latest experience of O365. This is unified, seamless, responsive user experience of O365.

Whereas classic UI is previous SharePoint experience. The current version of SPO does provide support to both classic and Modern UI.

Demo

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Details of differences

The new document library and list experience in SharePoint Online is faster, displays better in mobile browsers and is easier to use. With the new experience, you can create new folders and upload folders the same way you do it in OneDrive, using the command bar instead of the ribbon. You can also easily copy and move files using the command bar.

  • Pin documents to the top to highlight them
  • Add files as links instead of copying them between sites
  • Easily resize, sort, filter, and group columns, and create custom views
  • Quickly change file info, and easily access previews and additional details

The new experience supports the themes, navigation, and custom buttons that were created in the classic experience. However, some features can only be used in the classic experience.