Have Yosemite AND IOS 8.1 but SMS forward doesn't work!

I have the latest versions of Yosemite and IOS 8.1 both devices are logged into icloud and message forwarding says that it is enabled - everything is set up as it should be and yet when I try to send an SMS message from my mac it tells me the number is not registered with imessage - what is going wrong please and how do I fix it?

Hi,
Sending SMS from my iMac is something I have yet to test.
Nothing has been added to the menus to suggest starting an SMS messages as opposed to an iMessage.
There again the menu items that used to be a Drop down as part of "New Message" is also lacking on directing it to the iMessages account or any other account you might have.
9:58 pm      Monday; November 3, 2014
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