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Display preferences:
Use the options below to adjust the size, style and colors, and click 'Apply' below.
- multiple text or paragraph styles for your body (for example, don’t mix Normal style with Body Text style)
- automatic footnotes (not supported, may cause the conversion to fail)
- text wrapped around floating images (instead, right mouse click on image, click Format Picture: Advanced: In Line with Text, then use Word’s center button to center)
- and finally, to avoid the copyright error, carefully follow tip 21b below
We affectionately call our file conversion system Meatgrinder. In the last two years, we have continually enhanced it to produce high quality ebooks. The most recent upgrade was August 2010, where we made a series of great improvements to our EPUB and MOBI files.
Your source file, a Microsoft Word .doc document, goes in one end of the Meatgrinder and comes out the other end as multiple DRM-free digital book files for use on a multitude of e-reading devices such as the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble nook, Sony Reader, iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple iPad, a computer screen or virtually any other e-reading device.
If you ignore the formatting requirements of the Smashwords Style Guide, Meatgrinder will turn your book into hamburger. Please follow the instructions!
