Formatting Guidelines for Microsoft Word Documents

Some tips for how best to format your Word document to improve the look of your NOOK Book:

• To create chapter headings, insert a Section Break at the beginning each Chapter. A chapter heading will be created for every Section Break in your document, so only use a Section Break where you want a chapter heading to be created. To insert a Section Break at the beginning of each chapter of your MS Word file, put the cursor at the beginning of each chapter and select [Page Layout > Breaks > Section Breaks > Next Page]. If you see extra chapter headings in the Manuscript Editor after uploading your MS Word manuscript file, it usually means you have extra Section Breaks in your MS Word document. To remove the extra Section Breaks, open up your original MS Word file on your computer and click [View > Draft] to display the Section Breaks, and then scroll through your document and delete all of the unwanted Section Breaks. When finished, click "Replace Manuscript" on the Manuscript page of your Project in your NOOK Press account to upload your MS Word file again to NOOK Press.
• Bold, italic, underline and strike-through are supported.
• Internal and external links are allowed in your NOOK Book, but note that customers may not be able to link out to external links while reading on NOOK.
• To decrease the space between your paragraphs when you convert from Word to ePub, you should only include a single return between your paragraphs. Adding extra lines will cause very large spaces between paragraphs.
• To increase the space between your paragraphs, you can use the Word paragraph tool to increase the spaces without creating excessive space. Adding extra lines will cause very large spaces between paragraphs.
• To indent your paragraphs, do NOT use the Tab key to create the indents. It is better to set up a first line indent using the Word Paragraph tool.
• To create a bulleted list, use Microsoft Word's built-in bulleted list tool. Do not insert symbols to create bullet points—most symbols will translate into a question mark ("?").
• To create a numbered list or multi-level outline, use Microsoft Word's built-in numbered list tool.
• Use one of the following fonts: Times New Roman, Arial or Courier New.
• Use Caps Lock to type in capital letters if you want text to appear in all capital letters. Do not use the Word format for All Caps.
• If you want small caps, type in capital letters and change the font size for the text area that you want to appear in small caps. Do not use the Word format for Small Caps
• Do not use columns.
• Do not use superscripts and subscripts, as they will cause extra leading (space between the lines of text).
• To indent a large portion of text, for example when creating block quotes, use Word margin controls.
• Images can be formatted flush left, flush right or centred.
• Text wraps should be above and below the images, not around the image.
• Avoid using most symbols.
• Ensure that any fractions are kept as "1/4." Word will automatically format the fractions to appear as symbols, which will not translate correctly into your NOOK Book.
• Ensure that any ordinal endings are kept in line with the text ("1st") and not auto-formatted as superscript. Keeping them as superscript will produce added leading.
• Make tables that can be viewed in portrait mode rather than landscape mode to make them fit on the page.

A note about copy and paste: In addition to importing a manuscript file or starting to write directly in NOOK Press, you can also copy and paste from other documents into the Manuscript Editor. While in many cases the formatting of the original text/images is retained after copying and pasting, you may encounter some differences between the original text/images and the output in the Manuscript Editor. We recommend that you import text using the "Upload Manuscript File" option rather than copy and paste if you are encountering formatting differences.