Then resave it as a 'Save as Web Page, Filtered' file. Resave your new Word document so you have a Word version of this set of changes. If you have trouble with this sort of thing, there are plenty of helpers on the web who will help you with this aspect of formatting for very little money. Now include that table image as part of your document. Save that into the folder with your book document. Open that up in Paint or Photoshop and crop the image to just be the table in question. An easy way to do this is to hit 'print screen' while looking at your document. You need to make a graphic version of each table and include it simply as a JPG. If you have any tables in your document, now's the time to remove them. Alternately, you can remove the Table of Contents since the ebook reader will automatically include one. Press ALT-F9 to show the base code that is generating the Table of Contents. Someone who has vision problems can increase the font size and suddenly the book has twice as many 'pages'. There is no such thing as a page number in an ebook. If you have a Table of Contents, edit it so it doesn't show page numbers. That way the changes you make here stay separate from your print version and base version. Make a note in your version document of this new name and its purpose. I like to name mine xxx-ebook.doc, so in my case quicknocook-ebook.doc. This is going to be a special version just for reader-based ebooks. Save your beginning Word file with your ebook into a NEW FILE with a new name. With the wide variety of genres I work with I've dealt with graphics, font mixtures, strange layouts, and just about anything life can throw at you. I've got over 300 books loaded live in a wide range of systems - Kindle, Apple, Nook, Kobo, SmashWords, you name it. It's all about knowing how to set up your documents and what items to tweak as you convert them. When I first used to create my books it could take an hour or two to get the book formatted.

These step by step instructions help you through the many hurdles in navigating your way through the EPUB and MOBI creation process. Once you get the hang of it, you can convert a Word document book into both an EPUB and MOBI file in about five minutes flat.

Converting your Word base ebook file into an Apple iBookstore ePub file, Barnes and Noble Nook ePub file, and an Amazon Kindle mobi file can be quite challenging if you've never done it before.

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