This is how to reduce the number of characters displayed in a blog post on the default.aspx page of a blog site created from the OOTB SharePoint blog template. Open up the site in SharePoint Designer Open the default.aspx and switch to Code View Perform a Find & Replace for the following: Find- <Field Name="Body"/> Replace- <Limit Len="99" IgnoreTags="TRUE" MoreText="...">&... Name="Body&quo... This would limit the ......