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13 Comments Posted by kingmidget on March 30, 2014

For all of you self-published authors who have published via Kindle Direct Publishing …

I’m trying to publish Zoe’s book and have run into a snag. In the opening chapter, the Kindle version has a page or two where the paragraphs are all indented much more significantly than normal. Checking the source document shows those indents at the normal measure and nothing in the formatting of the source document that would suggest a reason for the different in those paragraphs.

I’ve uploaded it as a Word document. I tried as a PDF and that eliminated all indents and spacing between paragraphs and looked horrible.

Any of you run across this? Any ideas for how to fix the formatting in that chapter?

13 responses to “Kindle Publishing Question”

Charles Yallowitz March 30, 2014 at 10:11 am
That happened to me a few times when I started. It could be that you have a minor tab, which doesn’t show up when you hit the button to see all keystrokes and such. Not sure what that Paragraph symbol is called. Here’s what I did to fix it:

1. Hit the Paragraph symbol to seeing all breaks, keystrokes, etc.
2. Go to Find/Replace.
3. Find ^t (hidden symbol for tabs) and replace with nothing.
4. It should delete all of those and prevent the big indents.

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- kingmidget March 30, 2014 at 3:06 pm
  That worked. Thank you!!!!
  
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  - Charles Yallowitz March 30, 2014 at 3:06 pm
    You’re welcome.
  - kingmidget March 30, 2014 at 3:07 pm
    I knew I’d get the answer from you. You’ve been through this enough to probably have run into every type of problem with KDP and CreateSpace.
  - Charles Yallowitz March 30, 2014 at 3:11 pm
    Just about. I still hit snags. Though, the current book has been going with no technical errors.
  - kingmidget March 30, 2014 at 3:12 pm
    This is the first time I’ve had this problem with the Kindle formatting.
  - Charles Yallowitz March 30, 2014 at 3:13 pm
    Strange that it only hit a few paragraphs instead of all of them.
  - kingmidget March 30, 2014 at 3:20 pm
    I didn’t type the draft. It’s very possible that Zoe did some strange things with it while she was preparing it. At one point she had every chapter as a separate document, for instance. Who knows, maybe there was something different formatted into chapter one.
  - Charles Yallowitz March 30, 2014 at 3:23 pm
    Good chance. Even a transfer from one version of Word to another can alter things without the author knowing.
Patrick W. O'Bryon March 30, 2014 at 11:09 am
Charles’ instructions are what finally solved a similar problem for Corridor.

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- kingmidget March 30, 2014 at 3:06 pm
  Yep. It worked. Thanks.
  
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Kev March 30, 2014 at 11:18 am
The best way to avoid this for future reference is to set up your margins and indents via page set-up before you write. The problem occurs when you tab to indent and when you use and hard-return for the following paragraphs.

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- kingmidget March 30, 2014 at 11:45 am
  My document is set up that way.
  
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