Add, edit, or delete an announcement

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About Announcements list

Use the Announcements list to post information you want team members to see as soon as they go to your SharePoint team Web site. By default, a view of the Announcements list, showing the five most recent announcements, appears on the home page of your team Web site.

The Announcements list provides some features to make it easy to communicate effectively:

  • The five most recent announcements are displayed on the home page, but all the announcements in the list are available on the Announcements page.

  • You can set an expiration date for an announcement. When the expiration date is reached, the announcement disappears from the home page automatically. However, it is still available on the Announcements page.

Do one of the following:

Add an announcement

  1. On the top link bar, click Lists.

  2. On the Lists page, click Announcements.

  3. At the top of the list, click New Item.

  4. In the Title box, type a heading for the announcement. This field is required.

  5. In the Body box, type the text of the announcement.

  6. If you want the announcement to disappear from the home page on a particular date, click the calendar Cc768316.calendr(en-us,TechNet.10).gif and select a date.

  7. If you want to save the announcement in the list, click Save and Close.

    If you want to cancel creating the announcement, click Go back to list.

Edit or delete an announcement

  1. On the top link bar, click Lists.

  2. On the Lists page, click Announcements.

  3. Click the announcement you want to edit or delete.

  4. Do one of the following:

    • To modify the announcement information, click Edit Item. Modify the information, and click Save and Close.

    • To delete the announcement, click Delete Item.