Customize the home page

Put the features you use most often at the top of your web office home page where you can maintain easy access to them. You can customize:

Site administrators configure the default settings for the home page. You can retain these defaults or make your own settings.

To customize your home page settings:

  1. Go to Tools > Member Options.

  2. Click the Home Page tab.

  3. Click the Use my personal settings radio button, and then select your settings.

What you can customize

How you do it

Add new features to the home page

In the drop-down list, select the feature you want to add, and then click the Add button.

If you have removed features, restore them to the home page by clicking Add in the Content & Layout section.

 

Remove features on the home page

In the Left column or the Right column list, highlight the feature you want to remove, and then click the X button.

TIPS: You can also remove features when you're on the home page. Click the X in the upper-right corner of the home page feature you want to remove.

To temporarily collapse a feature on your homepage, click the minimize ( - ) button in the upper-right corner of the feature "window".

 

Change the order in which features appear on the home page and organize them into one or two column layouts

You can move features up, down, right, and left on the home page. Highlight the feature you want to move and use the up-down arrows or the right-left arrows to change its position.

By default, your home page content contains mini-"windows" in a two-column layout. To change this, select the single column radio button. Having a single column allows each feature more width in your home page window.

 

Reset the duration of time items display as "New", and change the number of items shown

By default your home page shows a set number of items in each application window, and expires the items after a certain number of days. The Application Settings section allows you to customize the number of days items are marked "New" for and determine the number of items displayed on your home page.

TIP: For optimal performance of your home page, choose a small number of days to show on the Calendar. The more Calendar days you show on your home page, the longer your home page will take to load.

  1. Click Save.