#formatting documents

[simplybydreaming]

Honestly formatting word documents for printing seems to be hitting the absolute spot tonight. Just happily sitting with my sleeping cat, chirping to myself and removing unnecessary formatting the long way round.

The neurodivergent urge to *format

[cjjasp]

Formatting Short Stories for Submission #amwriting

If you are serious about writing and submitting short stories, you must learn to use the features that come with your word processing program.

Publishers have specific, standardized formatting they want you to use, and these guidelines are posted on their websites. When a call for submissions goes out, their editors will have no time to deal with badly formatted manuscripts.

If you can’t be…

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[cjjasp]

Create a Hyperlinked Table of Contents

Create a Hyperlinked Table of Contents

One great convenience that an indie author can place in their Kindle, Nook or Smashwords e-book is a Hyperlinked Table of Contents. This is something I use all the time –it allows me to easily page back and forth.

The one I am using for this is an ancient file for the book that spawned Huw the Bard,  so ignore the page numbers. In those days I didn’t know that page numbers are like prisoners—they…

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[hithertokt]

Formatting documents via Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, etc.

I am by no means an expert, but I know enough about formatting documents to get by -- definitely enough to know how much I don't know, but also enough to do seemingly-fancy things that can be quite easy with a working knowledge of Microsoft products. I'd love to help others feel the same.

If I were to make some posts about it, eventually, in the future, what kind of tutorials would be helpful? What do you struggle with most?