How hidden characters in your Microsoft Word manuscript can mess up your book

How hidden characters in your Microsoft Word manuscript can mess up your book

What’s hiding in your Microsoft Word manuscript file? It may look fine — but then, when you submit it to the publisher, the results are poor. If you’re used to using Word to create finished-looking documents, you need to adjust your perspective. You’re now using Word to tell the publisher’s page designers and page layout…

15 tips for working happily with publishers during book production

15 tips for working happily with publishers during book production

Even when your manuscript is done, the book is not. After you hand in the manuscript, your publisher (or if you’re self-published, whoever you hired to lay out the pages and put it into online bookstores) still has to copy edit the book, lay out the pages, and get it printed and available for distribution….

Using Microsoft Word to prepare a book manuscript? Avoid these 14 mistakes.
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Using Microsoft Word to prepare a book manuscript? Avoid these 14 mistakes.

You think you know how to use Microsoft Word to write? What you’re doing may be fine for creating a draft to print out, but confusing to the people doing the book page layout and design. If you’re preparing content to be laid out in pages, here are a dozen-plus simple mistakes you really ought…