■ Posting an Update

FIGURE 5-5 You can hide, remove, or change a text object by clicking the down arrow in the upper right corner of the text box.

You can go ahead and add introductory content to your page by clicking in the text box and adding a heading and opening paragraph. Use the Formatting tools in the Font group to apply the format you want to the text.

One thing you might want to do—and something you can do at any time (whether you’ve chosen your theme and layout yet or not)—is post a note to let your team members know what’s going on. By default, your team site Home page includes a Posts area, just beneath the Introduction area at the top of the screen. To add a new note, click in the notes area and, in the List Tools List tab that appears, click New Item in the New group at the far left end of the ribbon. Click New Item, as shown in Figure 5-6.

FIGURE 5-6 Click the Posts area, and click New Item to add a post to the page.

In the Posts - New Item dialog box that appears (shown in Figure 5-7), type a title and the body content for your post. If you want the post to automatically expire, click the calendar symbol to the right of the Expires box and choose the date on which you want the note to expire. Click Save to add your post to the page. The information appears on the page below the post box so that your entire team can see it when they log in.