excerpt text

Hello,

Not sure how old the color mag tutorial is (I find it great and really helpful) but a few things don’t seem right – for example I don’t have a widget called “TG: Featured Posts Vertical widget” but thats okay it’s sorted.

My query is about the excerpt text. The instructions are:

Go to your post editor screen in the dashboard.
In post editor screen look for the Screen Options button at top-right part of the screen.
Click on it and make sure the Excerpt check-box option is checked.
Now, somewhere below the main post editor box, you should be able to see the the Excerpt option box.
Add your manual excerpt there with desired amount of text and Update the post.

However, when I go to the options in post editor screen, I don’t have an excerpt check-box, and this is making my site look a little messy because I can’t control the excerpt text.

Any help would be great, thanks!