Guides

Footnotes or Endnotes? Choosing and Formatting ...

How to choose between footnotes and endnotes in a self-published book: genre conventions, reader experience, Word's References tools, numbering restarts, and print versus ebook needs.

Image Resolution for Print: 300 DPI Without the...

What 300 DPI really means for a printed book page, how to check an image's effective resolution at its printed size, and why placing it smaller often fixes a fuzzy...

Scene Breaks That Look Right in Print (Asterisk...

How to style scene breaks in your book: asterisks, ornaments, and white space, plus the blank-line-at-page-boundary trap and the simple Word fix for it.

KDP Categories and Keywords: Filling the Boxes ...

A practical guide to KDP categories and keywords: how browse shelves work, why specific beats broad, writing keyword slots as reader phrases, and iterating after launch.

Mirror Margins and Gutters: Why the Inside of a...

Learn why the inner margin of a book page needs extra room, how to set Mirror Margins in Word, how the gutter grows with page count, and how to check...