Publishing E-Books For Dummies

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). Don’t worry if these terms don’t 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 it’s 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 you’ll need (you’ll find that Word 2007 is very similar, too). If you don’t have Microsoft Word on your computer at home, you will probably be able to use it at work or in a library. The same principles ...