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    From Word to eBook Made Easy: A Guide To Prepare Your Word Document For eBook Upload, From Formatting Paragraph Style Settings To Creating a Linkable TOC
    From Word to eBook Made Easy: A Guide To Prepare Your Word Document For eBook Upload, From Formatting Paragraph Style Settings To Creating a Linkable TOC
    From Word to eBook Made Easy: A Guide To Prepare Your Word Document For eBook Upload, From Formatting Paragraph Style Settings To Creating a Linkable TOC
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    From Word to eBook Made Easy: A Guide To Prepare Your Word Document For eBook Upload, From Formatting Paragraph Style Settings To Creating a Linkable TOC

    By Sabra Hunter

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    Learn how to prepare your word document for upload to Kindle & Smashwords in easy-to-follow instructions in order to produce a finished, professional looking ebook on your first attempt.
    Dedicated chapters offer a step-by-step guide for paragraph style settings, creating a linkable TOC, and how to produce your own book cover with just a couple of purchased jpeg files.
    The summary page offers a sequential list of steps to make separate files for Kindle, for Smashwords, as well as one to print for non-electronic (family) users, all from one root word.doc file.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSabra Hunter
    Release dateJan 19, 2015
    ISBN9781311044877
    From Word to eBook Made Easy: A Guide To Prepare Your Word Document For eBook Upload, From Formatting Paragraph Style Settings To Creating a Linkable TOC

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      From Word to eBook Made Easy - Sabra Hunter

      Word to eBook Made Easy

      A Guide To Prepare Your Word Document For eBook Upload,

      From Formatting Paragraph Style Settings

      To Creating a Linkable TOC

      Published & Copyright 2014 by Sābra Hunter - Smashwords Edition

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      The author wishes to thank Mark Coker and his Smashwords Style Guide, as well as Aaron Shepard’s From Word to Kindle.

      Much of my research came from their books.

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      Cover Design by Sābra Hunter

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      Clipart credit to Modella and Elena Suslova, both at 123RF.com

      Contents

      Introduction

      Formatting Tips

      Paragraph Styles Settings

      Manual Title and Copyright Pages

      Prepare to Edit

      Find and Replace

      After the End

      Creating a Table of Contents

      Uploading for Proofing

      Book Covers

      Getting Paid

      Content Summary

      Introduction

      Old habits die hard, so it was a real challenge for me to unlearn my way of formatting word documents in order to produce an error-free, professional-looking ebook upload. Get rid of page numbers? Never!  Stop using tabs to indent?  Why would I do that?  One space after a period? In my mind only teenagers did that. But all my research indicated that's exactly what I needed to do—and more. Clearly changes were in order . . . and I don't like change.

      So naturally, I did more investigation. I took copious notes, and, miracle of miracles, in the end I managed to upload my story with just two Smashwords autovetter errors: I needed to resize my book cover jpeg to 1200 x 2400 pixels and condense my Published by/Copyright credit pages down to one that included a Smashwords mention in order to meet their specific requirement.

      I should point out that Smashwords is my preferred distributor for Apple’s iBooks,

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