Mastering Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

5.4. Edit a List Item

As an example of how to edit a list item, let's edit the new Announcement list item that we created in the previous section of the chapter. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Move your mouse over the list item's title, and click in the selection box.

2. From the dropdown menu, select Edit Item.

3. In the Edit Item page, enter yesterday's date in the Expires field. (You can feel free to enter your birth date instead of yesterday's date—but I'm not volunteering mine. . .)

4. Click OK.

Back on the content page, nothing changed. The content page of the Announcements list stayed the same because it isn't filtering its data, even though you added a date that had already passed in the Expires field. But go back to the home page (using the breadcrumb ...