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Amazon KDP Support Formatting an ebook properly in Word or ...

cobinrox

I've downloaded and read about a bazillion formatting books over the past month that deal with MSWord-to-HTML/MOBI/EPUB, and this one How to Format Your eBook for Kindle, NOOK, Smashwords, and Everything Else is probably the best (in my experience).

It's still not an easy process, but I found the details in this book to be very useful.

I think the most useful section is how to use pre-clean MSWord tags and then how to finalize the output by using Notepad++ to search and replace tags via regular expressions.

http://www.amazon.com/Format-Kindle-Smashwords-Everything-ebook/dp/B005PG6CNS/cobinrox_20

The other books seem to either flat out say to not use MSWord at all or to use SIGIL or some other HTML editor. (Notepad++ btw is just a text editor.)

Anyway, just another point to ponder.

alkinea

Re: How to format a Kindle book properly in Word (or in HTML if needed) Posted: Oct 21, 2012 8:47 PM   in response to: man2010

Reply A side note that you can ignore: Amazon epublishing software will give you a lot of problems if you try to build a Kindle book using a manuscript made in Open Office

Not true anymore. I used LibreOffice and it worked like a charm. I used it for both the paper version (CreateSpace) and Kindle. No HTML or CSS, all the formatting done in LibreOffice Here is the template that I used for both (select "Template 1"): http://soft.alkinea.net/doc_templates.html