Mark Coker
The Smashwords Style Guide has helped indie authors produce and publish over 130,000 high-quality ebooks. 200,000 copies of the Smashwords Style Guide have downloaded!,This guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create and format an ebook using Microsoft Word.,The Smashwords Style Guide is required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and Diesel. ,Authors and publishers who don't yet use Smashwords can still benefit from the Guide. It provides detailed information on how ebook formatting is different from print formatting, how to create a reflowable ebook, and it offers step by step illustrated instructions on how to tame the beast of Microsoft Word.,INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE,GETTING STARTED,Welcome to Smashwords!,Do-it-yourself, or hire help?,Good formatting examples,What Smashwords publishes, what we donâ€™t publish,Five common formatting mistakes to avoid,How Smashwords publishes books,How Smashwords distributes books,How ebook formatting is different from print formatting,How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats,The three secrets to ebook formatting,How to avoid (and fix) AutoVetter errors,Introduction to Meatgrinder conversion system,Your required source file,Understanding the different ebook formats,FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS,FORMATTING,Pre-Prep,Making Word Behave,Step 1: Make a back up,Step 2: Activate Wordâ€™s Show/Hide,Step 3: Turn off Wordâ€™s â€œAutoCorrectâ€ and â€œAutoFormatâ€ features,Step 4: Eliminate text boxes,Step 5: The Nuclear Method,Formatting,Step 6: Unify Manuscript around Normal paragraph style,Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts,Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?),Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method,Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent,Step 7b-b: How to define trailing â€œafterâ€ space for block paragraphs,Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials,Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing,Step 8: Check your normalized text,Step 9: Why you should never use tabs or the space bar for indents,Step 10: Managing paragraph returns,Step 11: Managing hyperlinks,Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks,Step 13: Working with images,Step 14: Text justification,Step 14a: Centering text,Step 15: Managing font sizes,Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs,Step 17: Headers and footers,Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents,Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional),Building Navigation,Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript,Step 20a: Creating the NCX,Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents,Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes),Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing,Front Matter,Step 21: Front matter,Step 21a: Blurbs (optional),Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!),Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page,The End of Your Book,Step 22: The end of your book,POST-FORMATTING,Step 23: Preparing your cover image,Step 24: Review requirements for Premium
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