This is my first ever blog post…scary! I’ll start with a really easy solution to a problem I was tasked with solving by one of our departments…

Ever wanted to completely remove any reference to the pesky NEW! icon from freshly uploaded documents or list items? Yeah me either…well if in case you ever felt so inclined to do so here are some very simple steps to remove the icons from any new documents or items on a page.

This example is a SharePoint 2010 web application with a standard publishing site collection active:

1. 1. Navigate to the page you want to remove the NEW! icons from and begin editing
      

      

   2. Add a content editor webpart to the page; I added it to the bottom of the page but you can add it whenever suites
      

      

   3. Click on the down arrow to open the webpart menu – Select Edit Web Part
      

      

   4. You’ll now notice the content editor webpart has changed, it will now say ‘Click here to add new content’, click here!
      

      

   5. In the ribbon – Editing Tools menu – Format Text tab – Press HTML – Edit HTML Source
      

      

   6. In the HTML editor, copy and paste this little bit of CSS:


      <style>
      IMG.ms-newgif {display:none;}
      </style>
      

   7. Press OK on the HTML editor
      

      

   Voila! The NEW! icons have vanished and we can move on with our lives…the next little bit is totally optional, but I think for completeness it makes sense to do. We’re just going to rename and hide the content editor webpart so that it’s not visible and any editors know not to touch it:

   1. Click on the down arrow to open the webpart menu – Select Edit Web Part
      

      

   2. In the content editor webpart menu – expand Appearance
      

      

   3. Change the Title to ‘Do not delete’
   4. Change the Chrome Type to None
   5. Press Apply and OK

   That is all there is to it, we have successfully removed the NEW! icons so they are no longer visible and also hidden the webpart which contains the tiny snippet of CSS that makes the change.