Then check Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style. Under the Indents and Spacing tab, navigate to Special: First Line and enter 0.25. Click on Modify.Ĭlick on the Format button at the bottom of the window that appears. In Word 2016 right-click the Normal style in the Home / Styles ribbon. Instead of adding the indentation with spaces or tabs, you should be changing the style settings for the style you are using for the chapter text, if using Word’s defaults this would likely be the Normal style. Authors mistakenly create an indent manually so they can distinguish paragraph breaks without realizing they should be modifying the style to do this automatically. The reason many people do this is the default Normal style in Microsoft Word is set to not indent the first line of a paragraph. If you used extra spaces or tabs to create a first line indent in your document, they will need to delete them from your document. When formatting, your book designer will use style settings to set the first line paragraph indent. You should not use extra spaces or tabs to indent the first line of each paragraph.
This will show you all of the formatting markup in your Word document. If you can’t find it, you can also press Ctrl + * as a shortcut. The location for this in Word 2016 is shown below. The first thing you will want to do is view the formatting markup by toggling on the Show / Hide icon in Microsoft Word. If you are not sure which find/replace command to use to correct your issue, leave a comment describing your scenario and I will reply back with a Find and Replace for you to try. If you have a document already written in Word and it has some of these issues, don’t worry too much! There are many Find and Replace commands you can use in Word to correct them, which I detail below. A series of paragraph breaks (created by hitting the enter key) to force text onto the next page.Using only a paragraph break to create a scene break between paragraphs.Creating complex tables, charts, graphs at a page size larger than your book size.Using tabs at the end of a paragraph to create a new paragraph.
Two line breaks inserted at the end of a paragraph instead of a paragraph break.Manual line breaks at the end of each line of text in a paragraph.Two spaces between sentences instead of one.Two or more paragraph breaks between paragraphs.Extra spaces or tabs used to create an indent for the first line of each paragraph.However, there are some steps you can make when writing your book in Microsoft Word that will make the job of formatting your book easier and help prevent errors in the book formatting process.īelow are some of the most common issues I see in book documents sent to Jera Publishing to be formatted. When writing your book you should separate the writing from the formatting.
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