First, Ditch What You Don’t Needįirst things first, you need to lose quite a lot of what would be in a paperback version. So, if you want to format a Word document such that it sails through the conversion process for Kindle’s Mobi or the more generic E-Pub… read on. Sadly, so few even know these things exist, let alone how to use them. To format a document is a simple matter of using things that expert programmers have built into Word for us. We wouldn’t let a welder just weld, but we let an administrator just wield their way through Word. Now, in a former life I was an accredited trainer of all things Microsoft®, and the biggest revelation to me was how poorly prepared people were when given a PC and expected to “get on with it”. Yep – I get that some of you are keyboard wizards and witches, warriors all, scurrying away with Scrivener and ripping through with Reedsy… But, there are quite a lot of us mere two-finger mortals still ploughing our lonely furrows with that bastion of word processing software, the mighty Microsoft® Word. It’s easy to format ebooks with Microsoft Word, when you know how… Why Use Word to Format Ebooks Anyway?