Professional eBook Formatting and Preparation for Publishing Guide

As an indie author, properly formatting and editing your manuscript should be your highest priority. To do this rightly, the following guides will be of great help to you in professionally formatting your manuscript to acceptable standard of major eBook publishing and distribution platforms like Amazon Kindle Direct, Smashwords and Google books.
Save the manuscript in Microsoft word as a .doc document (Save As 1997-2003).
Properly edit and proof read, as well as removing all tab and spacebar spaces. To do this, ON the Show/Hide MS word feature to guide you.
Create and use custom styles to format the front and end matter of your book.
You can directly apply Bold, Italics, and Underline where necessary.
Create the working Table Of Content using the Bookmarking method which converts well in both Smashwords and Amazon KDP Direct unlike inserting table of content through Reference menu which is not acceptable  in Smashwords.
Simulate the eBook with your smart phone device to have a feel of it. If you are convinced it is great, congrats.
Login to your platform account and follow through the procedures to publish it.
Spread the news of your book being live on your published platforms.
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