Chapter 4
Formatting Your E-Book Manuscript in Word
In This Chapter
Fixing poor formatting in your manuscript
Working with styles in Microsoft Word
Including headers and footers
Adding section and page breaks
Reformatting your document
To produce an e-book that can be easily read (but not edited) on a computer or an e-reader device, you need to convert your manuscript into a file in EPUB, MOBI, or PDF format (or all three). Donât worry if these terms donât mean much to you: I walk you through the conversion process later in this book. For now, simply ensure that your manuscript is formatted so that itâs easy to convert.
In this chapter, I focus on Microsoft Word 2010, because this is the most recent version of the most popular word processing program. Word 2010 has all the features that youâll need (youâll find that Word 2007 is very similar, too). If you donât have Microsoft Word on your computer at home, you will probably be able to use it at work or in a library. The ...
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