Today a client needed a quick fix to truncate the blog posts on the home page of their SharePoint 2010 blog site.

Transforming the posts like so…

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Here is the quick and dirty on how I did just that.*
* note: this can also be done within XSLT without JavaScript, which I can blog about too, but like I said, this is quick with less chance for error.

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