Quite stupidly, I assume that the world runs of Microsoft Office when it comes to writing (typing).

And Barb and I are quite jazzed to get several submissions for a Guest Tutorial, one of which will run next month in the Tips and Tricks section of The Xara Xone. And everyone is going to be thrilled with this sort of sharing next month and in the future.

I'm asking people who submit tutorials in Call for Entries to please try to use WordPad if you don't own Word, because writing the tutorial in Xara requires that we copy all the text out, put it in a text file format, and then get it going in the template in WordPress, creating an extra step.

Windows 7 does have WordPad, it's just hidden pretty well! I'll assume (oops!) that you've installed your operating system to C; Wordpad.exe is in C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories.

So if you own Word, terrific, please use it. If not, you don't need to buy a copy. Rich Text Format and Word's native *.doc is terrific, and so is plain text except you can't use italics and bolds and font size.

In addition to saving a little time/work, we'd gain accuracy. We naturally don't want to introduce typographical errors and mess up paragraphs.

Thanks!
Gary