Using only a paragraph break to create a scene break between paragraphs.
Creating complex tables, charts, graphs at a page size larger than your book size.Using tabs at the end of a paragraph to create a new paragraph.Two line breaks inserted at the end of a paragraph instead of a paragraph break.Manual line breaks at the end of each line of text in a paragraph.Two spaces between sentences instead of one.Two or more paragraph breaks between paragraphs.Extra spaces or tabs used to create an indent for the first line of each paragraph.However, there are some steps you can make when writing your book in Microsoft Word that will make the job of formatting your book easier and help prevent errors in the book formatting process.īelow are some of the most common issues I see in book documents sent to Jera Publishing to be formatted. Now like the others suggest you can go to adjust the Hanging position from either the ruler at the top of page or right click paragraph, choose paragraph from the menu, on the Indents and Spacing tab in the Indentation segment, Special should say Hanging, and under By: adjust number to where you want the hanging lines to start.When writing your book you should separate the writing from the formatting. 5”, only suggest this because when you get to higher numbers that contain more digits like 10 or 100 your lines will no longer line up, now put your cursor at the first position before your first word, in front of the F in Function in this case, and press CTRL+Tab, this will tab the beginning of the line to your tab stop. Now create a tab stop where you want the first line to start, for example at.
This will format the line to look like this:įormat Changed, but has First line next to number On the Adjust List Indents window look for “Text indent” and change to something like1”, this can be changed later, now find “Follow number with:” field and change it from “Tab character” to “Nothing” and click “OK”. Now right click anywhere on the paragraph and choose “Adjust Line Indents” from popup menu. to indicate line continues because depending on size of screen it will format this differently): By trial and error and incorporating other suggestions, I was able to find a solution that worked for me.įirst create your number list with some information, for example using your example ( I used a short line followed by. As per your example this seems to be what you wanted. I ran into this problem recently and all answers I had found did not address this as it seemed a canned answer was given for using hanging indents, and not bothering to understand that the numbering format uses the default hanging indent to indent the lines after the number and is not able to indent subsequent lines an extra indent. There has been a lot of people that seem to not understand what is wanted.
I know this is almost a year old but I figured I would provide the answer I came up with.
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