![]() Just remember that page numbers don’t matter in KDP since font size can be changed, so these need to be hyperlinks. Once you have your headings and styles all applied, creating a Table of Contents in Word is super easy, and KDP will automatically recognize it. It will only recognize indentations set as paragraph styling in this window. If you are used to hitting “tab” to indent your paragraphs, KDP will NOT recognize this. If you want to format your book in a more classic novel style (indentation + no space after paragraph), you will also need to set that in here. ![]() This will add a lovely little space after your paragraphs the proper way. In this example, my body text style is called “KindleBody,” so I right click to “Modify” > “Format” > “Paragraph” and it takes me to this option where I can change the spaces before and after paragraphs, and be sure that “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style” is NOT checked. The way to get spaces between your paragraphs is to modify the style being applied to your body text. This is definitely wrong and is not how spaces between paragraphs are made: Formatting Body Text for KDPĪnother common error people make is that they hit “Enter” in order to make space between paragraphs. Once all of your headings are formatted using the styles, you can then create a Table of Contents that will autofill based on your various headings! Pretty neat. MS Word of course has preset styles in there for “Heading 1” “Heading 2”, etc., and you can change these styles to match your preferences by right-clicking the style and choosing “Modify.” The important thing is to make sure that text is cleared of other formatting you may have done inline before applying your Header Styles. You do NOT need to highlight the text, just have the cursor in there somewhere. The way to apply a style is, while the cursor is in the middle of the paragraph, just click the heading you want. Luckily, this is very easy (though a bit tedious to fix, depending on how long your document is). If they both say the same thing (probably “Normal”) it means you haven’t been formatting using styles. Now drop the cursor into a regular body paragraph. Then you can see which style it is being assigned on the left. Once your have your styles view panel open, put your cursor into your heading. So go into your book, and click this little button while you’re in the Home tab: Microsoft Word has a great tool for creating headings (and also TOCs) that applies formats to your headings and subheadings automatically through another kind of formatting called CSS.įirst off, we need to get our Styles Panel into view. You don’t have to know what it is or how it works, you just have to know NOT to use it. Unfortunately, this creates inline HTML, which e-readers don’t like. Using Text Styles for MS Word File to KDPĪnother common error when formatting a book is that people highlight text and then apply styles (make it bold, underline it, increase size) to make a heading. So make sure after you put in your page break (CTRL + Enter), that you delete the paragraph mark nestled at the end of the previous paragraph. Page breaks naturally insert themselves in a NEW paragraph, which can render a fully blank page on a kindle if your paragraph happens to fall at the very end of a page, like this: It’s also very important to note that your page breaks MUST be in the same paragraph as your final paragraph of text. Here is an image of what proper page breaks should look like: For KDP, as font sizes and screen sizes are changeable, a bunch of paragraph marks will mean MASSIVE blank spaces in your book. What many people don’t realize, is that hitting the “Enter” button a bunch of times is NOT how you get to a new page in Word. This will show you all of the paragraph markings, page breaks, section breaks, and everything else that is going on behind the scenes telling your document what to do. ![]() Looks pretty normal, right? But in order to see a lot of the HTML markup that is working behind the scenes, we need to turn on the ¶ function. So let’s take a look at a Word doc: Page Breaks and Paragraphs MS Word to KDP There are a lot of features in Word working behind the scenes that a lot of writers may not even think about before they upload their book, many of which can make it look wonky on the Amazon side. ![]() It will do the conversion into e-reader format for you.īut before you do that, you want to be sure that your. epub instead, if your book format is very simple and you don’t care about details like your interior title page image, you can 100% upload Microsoft Word docs to the KDP backend. While I totally don’t recommend doing this, and recommend using Calibre to convert your file to.
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