You should not use extra spaces or tabs to indent the first line of each paragraph. This will show you all of the formatting markup in your Word document. If you can’t find it, you can also press Ctrl + * as a shortcut. The location for this in Word 2016 is shown below. The first thing you will want to do is view the formatting markup by toggling on the Show / Hide icon in Microsoft Word. If you are not sure which find/replace command to use to correct your issue, leave a comment describing your scenario and I will reply back with a Find and Replace for you to try. If you have a document already written in Word and it has some of these issues, don’t worry too much! There are many Find and Replace commands you can use in Word to correct them, which I detail below.

A series of paragraph breaks (created by hitting the enter key) to force text onto the next page.

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.

When writing your book you should separate the writing from the formatting.

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