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Set communication site navigation options

Set communication site navigation options

Let's talk about navigation in a communication site. And it really is different than navigation in a team site. In a team site, people jump in and take a look at the newsfeed and then climb into the work. They might go into a document library or drop into planner or look at a calendar and so on. So they're working in the different parts of the site. Here in a communication site, many people are just coming here to look at what you are showing them. They won't be able to see new page details and analytics for the most part, because we'll handle that with permissions. But if they don't need to see documents, pages, and site contents, if all they need to see is what's on this page and then click links that are presented on this page, there's no reason to bother them with navigation. There's nowhere they need to navigate to. So you can turn off the navigation here just as you can on the team site, but you don't do it first because while you're working on the site, you may want to be able…

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