The most important style is for chapter headings. In the image above, you can see that I have renamed my own Styles, which I find easier to use than the default Heading 1 style, Heading 2, etc.īut if you want to use the standard format and character styles that are in your documents based template, that is fine too. If there are more than this in your document, it definitely needs to be cleaned up. Normally, you will only need four or five at most. For an ebook, it is best practice to keep these to a minimum. In the Styles pop up or sidebar, select Styles In Use to see a list of Styles you have in your document. You can also use the styles gallery to make a quick style change.Īs you can see in the image below, several built-in styles are used in my example document. Depending on your version of Microsoft Word, this may be a pop-up or a sidebar. You are now ready to start formatting your ebook.Ĭlick on the Home tab and Styles button. Check this quick guide on how to clear formatting in Word for PC or Mac. Related reading: How to create an index in an ebook Save your changes, and now you can begin to get your manuscript ready for ebook publishing. In your page layout, make sure that you are not using custom margins. Your cover will be a separate file when you publish.Īlso, check your page setup to ensure you are using a standard paper size or page size. If you have a cover image in your document, remove this as well. Your TOC page and chapter titles will be created automatically from your H2 chapter headings when you publish your ebook. If you have one, remove it from your Word document. Ebooks do not use any of these.Ĭreating a table of contents is also not necessary for an ebook. If you have page numbers in your headers or footers, delete them along with any other elements. The first step is to remove any page numbers because ebooks do not use them.
Now open the new file copy of your manuscript. Make sure you keep your original version safely filed and backed up. Perhaps add the word ebook to your file name, so you know it is a fresh copy. Where do you start with formatting an ebook in Word?įirst of all, save a new copy of your manuscript under a new file name. This guide applies to every version of Word as far back as Word 2007. Convert your Word file to epub or mobi The step-by-step procedure to format an ebook in Word
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