So, set your 'Normal' style to first line indent 0.1" and your body style to first-line indent 0.25". If you want the first line of a new chapter to not be indented, and html is not your thing, then I've seen books that don't look too bad that kludge this by setting the first line indent to a very small value, say 0.1". Not sure whether this is also part of your problem, but a lot of people get confused when lines that are flush left in Microsoft Word are indented on the Kindle.
Ken, the 0.5" will probably be converted into another unit of measure by the tool Amazon uses to convert Word files to Kindle, so don't treat that size literally. Ken wrote: "Here's the response I got from Amazon regarding the first line indents: To Kindle in Ten Steps: The Easy Way to Format, Create and Self-Publish an eBook to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. In Word 2003: Tools > Options > General tab > Web Options > Encoding tab > “Save this document as” > select “Western European (Windows).” In Word 2007+: Word icon > Word Options > Advanced > General > Web Options > Encoding tab > “Save this document as” > select “Western European (Windows).” In Mac: Word icon > Preferences > General > Web Options > Encoding tab > “Save this document as” > select “Western European (Windows).”
#PAGE NUMBERS ARE OFF IN KINDLE PREVIEWER PC#
When you use a special character, a curly quote for example, Windows codes it one way and Mac another this is why you will often see in an email sent from a Mac computer to a PC computer, or vice versa, curly quotes replaced by a question mark or some other incorrect character.įor Kindle books, Amazon requires Windows-1252 both Windows and Mac users therefore need to use Western European (Windows) encoding. Most Mac computers by default use either Western (MacRoman) or Western European (Mac).
The default language of English in Word for PC is Windows-1252, also known as Western European (Windows). The text of your manuscript is governed by a coding language. It is usually curly quotes, either single or double, and Word uses a character mapping that ensures that everything else changes it to weird things. Basic Latin and Latin-1 will be recognized by Kindle but not the other subsets (in some fonts certain symbols normally found in Latin-1 are found under the subset General Punctuation and are recognized).įor a list of characters accepted by Kindle, Amazon suggests referring to the Wikipedia page on Latin-1/ISO-8859-1.ĭavid wrote: "I know which ones you are talking about. What is a font subset? In Word, if you select Insert > Symbol, in the box that appears you will see on the left a field naming the font and on the right a field titled “Subset.” Most of the common fonts-such as Times New Roman, for example-have the subsets Basic Latin, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, and so on. Lastly, if you use symbols they must belong to these same websafe font families and must be a recognized subset. This includes text effects like all caps and small caps. All other text effects cannot be read and will be converted to regular text. Do not use any font larger than 18 points or smaller than 10 points.Īlso, only certain text effects are recognized: italics, bold, underline, superscript, subscript, and strike-through. Do not use any other fonts and especially do not use Dingbats, Wingdings, or Webdings.
Use only: Arial (Regular only, not Black), Courier New, Georgia, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, and Verdana. Telluah: Although only the Kindle Fire will display embedded fonts, you are still limited to "websafe" fonts as other fonts (and thus their characters) may not be recognized by the ereader. Tellulah wrote: "Sorry if this is a stupid question - I'm just finishing building all the elements of my book and haven't yet hit the formatting part (although it terrifies me).
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