Manuscripts Are A Dirty Business: Remove The Extra Sections, Breaks, and Spaces Before Submitting or Formatting Your Book

Let’s face facts. It’s hard enough to write a book, let alone keep the manuscript file clean. Eventually you find yourself with an edited book that you want to submit to agents or self-publish, but there’s all kinds of extra line breaks, spaces, tabs and other inconsistencies that make your manuscript look like a giant mess. Sure, you can turn it over to a book formatter, but the up front work to clean up the … Read more

Why Are There Hundreds of Content Controls in My Word Doc?

This book formatter recently opened a manuscript to do a simple round of edits and got smacked in the face with hundreds of content controls. Fields that wouldn’t behave. Text boxes that felt… caged. Dropdowns. Placeholders. Everything wrapped in mysterious grey borders like a haunted digital form. This was a children’s book. Not a legal intake form. So why was Word treating it like one? Wait, What Are Content Controls? If you’ve ever clicked into … Read more

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