Gebbie Press - family owned and operated since the year 1955. How to properly input your press release In a nutshell, use PLAIN TEXT ONLY. I cannot stress this enough. The reasoning is simple. If you send a highly formatted document with boldface, italics, logos and any other formatting that makes it "look pretty on paper", it becomes unusable because the editor has to remove all those bits of code. They may not be removable at all and will be seen as those strange looking characters and symbols that I am sure you have seen in your emails. Everyone's email program is different and interprets things slightly differently. In essence, you would be sending a picture and all the editor could do is print it out and retype the pertinent text into their system. This is not likely to happen. ;>) All they need is simple, plain text that they can cut, copy and paste. Don't paste a Word document or PDF or any other formatted text here. If you already have a Word or similar document, save it as plain text. Often, a formatted Word document saved as plain text still has bits of code in it. Use Notepad to open the saved file and resave it once again. Notepad will usually remove any leftover formatting. The best thing to do is to simply type your release into this screen and eliminate any chance of introducing any code. You may, of course, include links, your email address or links to photos in your release. Don't include the "http://" part of the URL. For example, just use www.gebbiepress.com Contact us for more info