From Word to eBook Made Easy (Using Word for Mac v2021)

By Sabra Hunter

This is a handy guide that goes straight to computer settings to make your next eBook look professional.  Included are 9 separate Paragraph Styles settings, including: Normal, No Indent, Block Indent, Hanging Indent, and Chapter Headings.  Also, there's a handy Mac/PC Find/Replace list for easy access to less frequently used editing conversions, including tips for removing those sometimes stubborn Page/Section Breaks.  Last but not least, you'll find easy-to-understand step-by-step instructions for manually creating a linkable TOC for eBooks (without page numbers.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sabra Hunter
• Release date: Jun 19, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227055644

Sabra Hunter

Sabra Hunter, a veteran employee of Braniff, Western, and Delta Air Lines, has traveled extensively throughout a 44-year career that included several foreign temporary work assignments.  Her published travel stories are the result of journals kept during those trips. Sabra began her publication history with a piece called 'The Downside of Shearing' published in The Camelid Quarterly's inaugural issue of March 2002. Now, retired as well as an empty nester, she fills her days with housework, yardwork, and writing--not necessarily in that order.

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Introduction

Old habits die hard, so it was a real challenge for me to learn new and different ways of formatting word documents in order to produce an error-free, professional-looking eBook. Get rid of page numbers? Never! Stop using tabs to indent? Why would I do that? One space instead of two after a period? In my mind only teenagers did that. Unfortunately, all my research indicated that's exactly what I needed to do—and more.

For starters, I needed to resize my book cover jpeg to 1200 x 2400 pixels.  I also needed to condense my Published by & Copyright credit pages down to a single page.

My initial text was written using a modified Normal Paragraph Style, renamed Print,  set to double-spacing, since that’s is easier for me to proofread. Also, because I planned to print this version, I had to add page numbers.

Later, after all the proofreading was done, I applied Normal (single spacing) style to the entire text and deleted page numbers since they’re not needed for eBooks.

**NOTE: You don’t have to do this, but as a precaution when you first begin your proofing/editing process, you might want to save your document as a Title_O.doc (O for Original) and place it safely inside your HD. Then, for editing purposes, make an alias of it and place the alias your desktop.  This will prevent any accidental deletion of the original file.  As you get more adept at proofreading on screen, you’ll eventually be able to skip this step.

I am not a professional editor. I don’t have dozens of eBooks to my credit. But my first upload is testament that if I can do it, anyone