How to Delete Your eHow Drafts

Drafts sometimes stack up in a writer's eHow Articles section. Here's how to delete unnecessary drafts without deleting an article.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Log into eHow and click on the My Profile tab. Then click on the My Articles link in the My Profile submenu.

2. On the page called Manage My Articles, locate your Drafts. They are the the first articles in the list, and their Status is a green "Draft" instead of a blue "Published."

3. Find the Drafts you can get rid of.
   
   Drafts are unpublished eHow articles. Some of your Drafts are unfinished articles you saved as a Draft, while others are the undeleted Drafts of articles you published. Still other Drafts are the saved changes that occurred when you accidentally closed an eHow template or crashed your browser. As you can see, not every draft is relevant, and they can clog an author's My Articles section.

4. Open up individual drafts in new windows. Hit the Command button while you click the Edit button of the draft on a Macintosh Computer, or right-click on the Edit button in Windows. The Draft will open in a new window.

5. Switch to Expanded View of the Draft. Expanded View is a link next to the text that says "You are Publishing With the How To Wizard." When expanded view loads, all the text fields of the article will be viewable at once. Check the content fields of the draft to make sure it isn't unpublished material, and that you actually want to delete it. If you determine that the Draft can be deleted, scroll to the very bottom of the page. Click on the link to the right of the Publish Article button that says "Delete Draft."

6. The Draft will be deleted. Now close the window to return to the window underneath, the My Articles page, and repeat steps 4 and 5 for any other Drafts you want to delete.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have a lot of Drafts called "How To" with no information in the fields, they are being created when you close an open template window without writing anything in it.

[eac913]

on 9/16/2009 Great information, but if someone else took the title...and you can't get in...how do you delete?

[jogold]

on 1/25/2009 Thanks! I couldn't figure out how to do this until I read your post.

[CrystalR]

on 12/11/2008 Thanks, I was going a bit bonkers trying to figure this out! lol

[MarlaineMarie]

on 9/24/2008 eHow should also let people cruising your articles be able to click something like health and be able to see all your health articles up at the top or whatever subject it may be. It gets a bit daunting to try to look through 600 articles for all of your "pets" articles or subject of choice!!!!

[kiwi800321]

on 9/24/2008 Thanks!!! I agree, ehow should make this task easier.