One of the frustrations I’ve had is that when something is sent in Plain Text, if the message goes all the way across the page, it’s difficult to read. I’ve tried putting in hard breaks and all kinds of other tricks, but it never worked great.

Lisa, productivity assistant deluxe, contacted KickStartCart (they have great tech support) and they suggested using a utility (that is free) and I just tried it today for the first time and wanted to pass the info along:

http://www.formatit.com/

Give it a try. It’s quite nifty, whether you’re using KickStartCart or just need to format some plain text email.

P.S. If you decide to try out KickStartCart, I would appreciate it if you would sign up through my affiliate link. Remember, you pay the same regardless. You can always try out their 30-day free trial.

Thanks!

Using Jeff Herring’s information, I am writing my first few articles to try to post on ezine.  One of them is how to use the distributive property to solve algorithms.  I have found it necessary to show examples using a table.  Will this be an acceptable format in ezine?

Posted by Cheryl Hecht | 11/26/07

Answer:

From everything I understand from the EzineArticles.com site, formatting options are fairly limited–so as to allow the most places to access and publish the articles.  As far as I know, you can’t include tables with your article.  Here’s what I’m wondering though…could you use this as a way for people to contact you?  You write the article with the best explanation you can give, and then in your resource box, you invite them to contact you for examples, which you couldn’t include given the format limitations.  Is that a possibility or not?

And, have you ever written an article for The Mathematics Teacher or one of the other NCTM publications?  At least then you can include all the formatting you want to.

Very glad to hear you are writing articles!!