How to EASILY format a Kindle Ebook and Paperback book using Microsoft Word

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In this video, I go in depth on how to properly format your Ebook and Paperback book manuscript for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) with relative ease. There are tons of different ways you can go about doing this, but in this video I show you the most simple and straightforward method to get your books ready to be published.

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[Blytheable]

Just to say thank you, my author copy came and it actually looked professional, I'm dyslexic so huge achievement. no gutter runners numbers good. happy bunny, Tina Dee Lite published 1st book xx

[kittysonder]

Thank you so much for this! All my stress went away and I did it, I published my novel. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this and for sharing your knowledge. Even with all my research, I didn't realise that Amazon had their own template and it was a lifesaver. Thank you, Dane!

[fanorama]

Finally, someone who could help me get my first Kindle book formatted and publshed. I was ready to give up. Thanks Dane!!

[GoVandyBronc]

The word for squared off is "Justified." Nice work Dane.

[nomathembamoyo]

Very helpful for a young upcoming author in South Africa. Simply detailed and easily explained. Thank you Dane!

[incentive]

Whilst new to self-publishing, having to use outsourcing to publish my first book (good and not-so-good experience), I know a lot about training videos and presentations and Dane is way up there on both. Many Thanks

[JeanneTheunissen]

My favourite font has always been Palatino. I used to do editing for a publisher, and that was the font they used, and I've tended to use it for everything myself ever since.

Thank you for this, as I've never published anything myself, but a friend of mine has asked for my help, as he doesn't have time to do it himself.

[TaRazzy]

I've been struggling for about a week. Thank God I came to Youtube U and found you. I appreciate you so much!!

[diannehardwick]

Thanks Dane. This was very helpful, as I am preparing a book of poetry for my first publication. A straightforward explanation is just what is required.

[annaschwein]

Very introductory but helpful. BTW: "Squared off" is called "full justification" (vs left justified or right justified or centered).

[LouiseTurmenne]

Thank you. I wasn't even aware MS Word could be used to ready a book for publication, particularly on Kindle. I was under the assumption you needed a special program to upload onto Kindle. You've simplified the process for me. Thanks again.

[clearing]

Thank you so much! Translating an English book into Japanese... This is the hard part for me, so I really appreciate you making it so clear.

[Gustaiiv]

Dang you're good! Thank you sir. The word you were looking for to make the textblocks square is called justify. Align justify.

[rishreinen]

I appreciate your producing this video. As a person who has been a disc jockey and a professional musician for 23 plus years (I'm now 75), when I hear others presentations I will recommend to, at times, just sit back and watch your own show; listen to the speed of your speaking and notice if you are speaking so fast that you are running your words together. I appreciate your time. When one speaks so fast, it also affects the listeners to be a little more on edge and nervy. Anyway, good job my friend.

[aprilmccain]

I can’t express how excited I gotten as I went along with doing this on my computer

[joshuatheleader]

Even though I don't have word docs and my screen doesn't look like yours, this video still helped a ton for me with writing my first book! So thank you.

[lifeInSyncChannel]

It was a struggle to get my book published but I followed your steps and it worked. Thank you

[biswajeetdas]

I must include the best-ever program I watched, very meaningful and mentioned in detail for the beginners and as well as sub-professionals, thanks for sharing this.

[coalachaos]

Thank you for your video. I am currently on a serious number of projects. I am writing 13 textbooks plus 2 screenplays. I am facing the issue of having no time because with the textbooks there are mobile apps in the development PLUS I am working full-time in a totally different branch. As I can say from my experience now - This is a very very easy way to do it. But if you are short on time, or jump between different manuscripts, you have to do all the presets before. Therefore I recommend using a format for both pages and text-bodies. For example its one click for a page break, or just one click to bring the headline in place, with specialties such as a larger first character, or the size of the break between the headline and first text-body. It is terrible to do that after another - And being realistic - 130 Pages is not much. If you are doing that for each page after completion, it is going to consume a lot of time. Plus, if you want to have a cooperate design throughout a book series, there are tiny slips you can make to mess things up. Save time, prepare the document before you work in it. But thank you very much for your video!
All the best!

[sondrarubin]

SUPER JOB - thank you! Clear and to the point!