Creating an excerpt

Create a 20-word excerpt for your blog posting to avoid displaying a long text segment on your blog main page. Once the excerpt has been created, your blog main page shows the excerpt instead of the text segment, and provides a link to the full text on the article, review or photo page.

To create an excerpt

1.	Open the Post tab on the Publisher Control Panel, and complete the information for your article, review or photos posting.

2.	In the Excerpt (Article Summary) area of the page, do one of the following:

•	to automatically generate an excerpt, click the Automatically generate excerpt checkbox

Note: If you select this option, the first few words (you can specify how many) of a text segment appear on the blog's main page. This setting is activated from the Settings and Security tab on the Publisher Control Panel. For details, see Using automatically created Excerpts.

•	If you want to use your own text for the excerpt, type the excerpt in the box below the check box. You can use HTML when typing the excerpt.

Once the blog is saved and published, the excerpt appears on the blog's main page. Readers click the more link that is displayed after the text to go to the article, review or photo page, where the full text can be read.