

In my example there are three: MsoNormal, Center, and h1. (by the way, if your Notepad++ file doesn’t look the same as mine, it’s because I have turned off word wrap and eliminated the extra soft returns) If you styled your document the same way I did, you will have two lines of code–one at the beginning that says something like and a closing tag at the end of the document. If they bug you, too, let me know and I’ll show you how to use Find/Replace in Notepad++ to quickly remove them.

Not enough to affect reading quality, but enough to bug hyper-sensitive readers (like me). I have noticed, however, that they cause a wobbly quality to the justified text and some unusual behavior in line spacing. If you leave them in, they won’t affect your ebook very much. Word has a nasty habit of inserting soft returns at the end of lines in paragraphs. STEP 4 (Optional): Get rid of soft returns. So use Find/Replace and make sure your numbers match up (Notepad++ will tell you how many items it replaced) So if you have for italics, then you must have to close the tag. STEP 3: Turn your special formatting tags into proper html tagsĮasy to do with Find/Replace in Notepad++. Holy Moley! This is what it looks like?!? NOTE: If your ebook is as simple as the one I’m using as an example, with no images and limited styles, you can stop right now and directly upload your Word file to Amazon.

But trust me, if you can copy/paste, you can do this. If you’re not familiar with html, what happens next is going to be freaky.
