These are great tips that every writer should know to avoid wasting time making useless formats in their texts.
A Quick Primer for Fiction Writers in using Microsoft Word in the Digital Age
It always saddens me a little when a writer sends me an overly formatted Word doc to turn into an ebook or print-on-demand. It’s not that I have to clean it up–I can strip and flip the messiest files in less than an hour. What bugs me is how much thought and effort the writer wasted on utterly useless manuscript styling.
Example of a Word doc that has been overstyled.
The majority of writers I work with use Word. The vast majority have no idea how to use Word for their own benefit. I understand. I was a fiction writer for over two decades and even though I have been using computers and a variety of word processing programs since the late ’80s, it wasn’t until I started learning book production that I figured out how…
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Skye Callahan 
Thank you so much for that great reblog, Skye! That’s a great help! I was fighting with Smashwords for weeks with formatting my ebook. This will help me out so much.
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