![]() (Editors everywhere are now nodding their heads.) If you began your writing career on a typewriter, (and even if you didn’t) you might be guilty of “typewriter” formatting. Remember the days of the typewriter? Authors of a certain vintage are nodding their heads. Image by Charline Tetiyevsky Posted on JJCategories Ebook formatting, Word Tags CrossEyes, ebook formatting, find hidden formatting, Microsoft Word add-in, reveal codes, WordPerfect How to Find the Hidden Formatting That Will Mess Up Your Ebook If you have a Word document that behaves in strange ways on an e-reader, or an ebook that’s getting error messages after you upload it to a distributor, such as Amazon or Smashwords, CrossEyes will help you to see what’s going on. You’ll want to remove unwanted formatting so that it doesn’t alter text in undesirable ways on an e-reader. If you click on the white space in a document, you’ll discover if different fonts are lurking, or if “illegal” ebook spacing (tabs and extra paragraph spaces) have been applied. CrossEyes Styles dialog boxĬrossEyes can also help you to see formatting that you can’t see, but that can cause problems for ebook conversion later on. You can also hit the Backspace key to delete a code, which will then delete the applied style. A Styles dialog will pop up, allowing you to choose another style option. To change a style in CrossEyes, double-click on a coloured formatting code in the CrossEyes window, and hit the Enter key to select a new style. CrossEyes exposes the font so you can delete it. ![]() The font is similar to Times New Roman used elsewhere in the document, but with an unpracticed eye, or without the help of CrossEyes, it can be easy to miss. CrossEyes window codes are in colour (Click to enlarge)Ī quick peek in the CrossEyes window tells you that in the first line of the document paragraph, the author introduced a different font to the document. ![]() It helps that the codes are featured in bright colours and colour-coded according to type. But with some practice, you can become adept at reading the formatting codes and deleting the ones you don’t want. If you’re not familiar with formatting “codes,” CrossEyes will seem a little foreign to you at first.
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