Never mind publishing guide... this the best WORD tutorial I have ever seen. Great video! I learned so much.

3 years later and i just want to say you are 100% the greatest walkthrough. Your honesty, dry humor, and step by step guide is a life saver!! Thank you!!

Amazing tutorial! I went from an unpolished text to a beautifully formatted novel just by following along, step-by-step. You saved hours of my life that I would have spent researching in frustration. Seriously, from a college professor of 15 years, you really know how to do it right!

By far I have watched so many videos on formatting.... And you have made this so simple and easy to follow I sincerely THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!! SUBSCRIBED & notification is on for ALL videos.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

WYNTER, this was so helpful!!! I hate hate hate formatting with everything in me, but this walkthrough gave me so much confidence and your chill instructions are helping me keep my cool. I took notes the whole time and I know I'll be rewatching to reference back. Thank you!!

This probably sounds weird, but the video aesthetic is very motivating? It's just calm and pretty and makes me want to write. This was a great video and thanks for the tips!

My best tutorial ever. Thank you.

Great vid, great help, thank you so much x Will probably rewatch this each time I finish a manuscript.

Hoody Brown here, telling every writer wanting to self-publish to watch Wynter's video on formatting novels for KDP. It is excellent and should be tabbed to view again and again. I recommend writers take notes for future projects. I just self-published my second book, "Dead Spoken Here," and it was only because of Wynter's video that I was able to navigate what would have been an Amazonesque feat! Thank you, Wynter, for helping me get both of my books out (Dead is Romantic and Dead Spoken Here).

Nice video. Lots of nitty-gritty type stuff that I think other instructors would gloss over. Nice job!!!!!

thank you for this tutorial! it will a lot since i'm self-publishing my first book.

The most incredible helpful video ever! Thank u sooooo much ❤

Thank you thank you thank you. Clear and easy to follow 👌

The best video I have found on the process. Thank you so much.

Girl, you are phenomenal! I just subbed. This is the most informative vid I’ve seen about publishing books. You rock.

So specific! This was a big help. Thank you. I was having trouble with my page numbers in word as well

Thank you so much for your video. There's so much valuable information in it. I learnt a lot!

I think some good advice would be, at the end of you book, print out a few pages with the same text but with different font sizes and perhaps margins, and label them so that when you get your proof copy, you can really compare the sizes and then choose what you want!

This was really helpful! I'm working on formatting my first manuscript for Kindle and it's definitely a learning curve. Thanks for taking the time to do this. It felt like I was working with a friend!

This was so helpful. Thank you.

Thanks so much. The video was really helpful for a first time publisher like me!!!

New video!! (just started watching) I just uploaded my new book to Amazon a few hours ago! Thanks for your advice ^_^

I got more out of your video. Than I did the Kdp manual. A BIG THANK YOU.

Thank you for this video and for explaining the reasons behind the mistakes you made and how we can avoid them.

I am less than halfway through video right now, and already sending a thank you, because there is SO much good information there! I'm working on creating my upload for KDP now, and this has helped tremendously. Many thanks. :D

Firstly, I have to say thank you! Your video has been a hair saver as I was pulling it out before discovering you. Secondly, your help on styles and formatting gave me the hint I needed. I have found out how to format the chapters so that you don't have to enter on each one. You adjust the formatting in paragraph for the chapter's style. I have mine set at 102pt before spacing and 18pt after spacing. This allows you to have the dropped chapter heading every time without having to do it manually. I hope this helps and thank you again. Best wishes, Hannah

I never write comments, but I am so thankful for this. So helpful!

And here I was, thinking that writing was all I needed to concern myself with. Formatting is just as crucial. I have watched your video several times, returning to it as one would notes. So far so good, Wynter. Thanks for the tutorial. Do you have any videos following this process? Kindle tips? Creating the cover? I ask because I didn't see any on KZfaq. Again, thank you for the great lesson.

Your formatting video helped me A LOT Thank you so much! Your explanations were the only ones I found that i understood when formatting :D

Wynter, I have thoroughly enjoyed and learned so much from your training. I subscribed to follow you. Thanks

I Wynter, since this video is a couple of years old, I don't know if you'll ever see this, but I just have to say Thank You for this video! You say at the end that it's rare for a POD to go through the first time, but I've now published two POD editions - both were approved the first time through and within 24 hours. I attribute a significant part of that achievement to your thoughtful video!

Hey Wynter, Thanks so much. I love your realism, honesty, and dry humor. I actually have two self published books on Amazon but I had a professional do the lay out for both of them. Now, during Covid, and having learned how to tap dance and edit videos on youtube in my extra time, I figured I can learn book layout as well, and DO IT MYSELF... I'll let you know how it goes. . Cheers, Sarah Colton

Very good! Thank you for teaching me!

I wish I could like your video 888 more times. 🥰 Thank you so much for your thoroughness and clarity. I feel so comfortable listening to you. It's like you're sitting across the table, explaining the process over tea. I've watched many KDP videos, but this is the one I came back to for finalizing my manuscript. Again, thank you and many blessings. 🙏

Wynter, you're a fine teacher with a delightful prose style. So be proud of yourself and your writing career.

THANK YOU! This video saved me so much stress, you have no idea. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

WONDERFULL!! Your voice exudes tranquility and patience. Even though you may or may not be in that state of mind….Smile I needed information on page numbering - yes!. But I also needed information on how to add glyphs, headers and footers. You did not cover this. But because of your “calm, soothing” voice, I just listened. Please take care of your God given instrument-which is your voice. We need more video presenters like you. Some have tried to imitate what you naturally have. They “come off” as either condescending, or downright LOUD, RUDE, and OBNOXIOUS. Then they have the nerve to say, “And don’t forget to “click on” the like button and subscribe to my channel.” Truly, this makes me laugh out loud; and I want to ask them, “Are you kidding me?” But again, you stay safe, be blessed, and “keep on posting these great videos.” P.S. gargle with some old-fashioned baking soda, peroxide, or Dr. Tichenor’s MouthWash. Either one is guaranteed to cure what’s “ailing ya.” NMA

This video saves my life every time I format my paperback-- THANK YOU!!!!

Superb tutorial - thanks a lot!

WOW! Thank you so much. Super informative AND entertaining! You're brilliant. :)

God. Bless. You! I am in development on forming my own novel, and I was going into further development on creating the book format while doing the draft. I was stuck. Badly. So I found your video, saw the tabs that I needed the most (for now) and it was like the stress left me. You broke it down so easily and simple, and I’m highly grateful for it. I’m so using this video when my novel is ready for self publishing. Thank you so much ❤

I am watching your video as I type. I noticed you posted it a year ago so you probably won't see this, but I felt compelled to reach out. Thank You. You are so authentic and sincere. I've watched at least 100 KDP videos sine I entered the KDP ecosystem. Your presentation was by far the most instructive and revealing.. I hope that you continue to post and share your KDD journey. By the way, thanks for presenting alternatives to the 6x9 inch paradigm. Holding the alternate sizes totally make sense regarding the real world and what readers are accustomed to.

I first looked at your video and thought, 'this is going to be another ramble on vid of useless twaddel.' However, you are very good and I applaud you for showing us how to do the very thing that other 'Gurus' require you to pay for. Thank you. And I mean that sincerely.

This was great! 💪🏼Thank you so much! 🙏❤️

Good stuff. Very informative. Thank You.

Thank you so much for all your help! I appreciate you. I hadn’t been able to find anyone to help me understand it the way you have. I have three books coming out and I really needed them formatted correctly. So thanks again! I got your link info from Charissa Chasyk

This is an awesome video and super helpful....

Hiya! I'm new to KDP and watched your video after formatting a book just to compare. I like how you explain things! You mentioned not having unlocked the secret to creating a style that automatically creates the spaces for your chapter headings. I just did this for the book I formatted and would like to share it with you: 1. Right click on the chapter style you use. (so in the case of this vid, "TitleText") click Modify. A Modify Styles dialogue box will pop up. 2. At the lower left corner of the dialog box, click on Format > Paragraph. A Paragraph dialog box will pop up 3. Go to 'Spacing' and enter any value in the Before and After fields. This will create the space automatically without you having to press enter every time. You can adjust the spacing depending on how much... space you want. For the spacings you did in your vid, I think you could try Before: 120pt and After: 60pt. You can freely adjust the spacing here after, and all the text that you've selected to be in this style will be changed accordingly; no need to do it for each one every time you change it. :) Hope this helps!

Aloha Wynter! I can't tell you how much I appreciated your video!. Some folks would love to charge me $1,000 and up to format my book, suggesting that formatting is really only for those who have many years of experience. That may be true, but I do know a lot of Word, but am a bit under-educated in the areas that you speak about. I was able to go in and re-format etc. and I think it looks pretty darn good. Showing how to Save to PDF and publish, etc. was another piece that you explained clearly. I'm looking forward to seeing a few more! Thanks again. Much success to you in the future.

Thank you so much for your video! Your my life saver! :)

Thank you. This is helpful.

Great video. Thank you so much.

Just Thankyou!! Awesome 👏 help

Excellent video! You took the time and explained the concepts very well. I got through formatting my first novel in one day with this as a reference. Most of the time was spent wrestling with numbering, so I feel you on your disdain for it. This has to be exactly what hell feels like! My favorite line from the video though? In the "Exporting to PDF" section you say, "You can watch these videos. I think it's annoying to watch videos." Could there be a better wrap up near the end of a 52 minute video tutorial? Thankfully, I didn't find YOUR video boring! It was very helpful. Thank you!

Can’t wait to rewatch and put my books thru to kdp. Been having people on fiverr do it and then almost always I see that they’ve changed something from my original document. Something small that I didn’t catch before I accepted the “delivery”.

Thank you so very helpful

I figured out how to start each chapter halfway through. 1) After each chapter ends, insert a page (Go to Layout, go to breaks, page.) 2) That will put the beginning test of next chapter on a new page. 3) Set the heading style to spacing you want. (Home tab, style corner popup, create new style, format, paragraph, and then you can change the before and after spacing of the chapter title.) 4) when you highlight the section header you then select that header style and it will automatically format to that style and spacing. :) Took me a bit to figure it out, but it works. Hope that helps! :D

Very helpful thanks

Great video 👍

excellent video

Omg you are the best ❤.

Thanks again for all you done to help. Have you thought about doing a version for ebooks?

I'm told that when Amazon allows a prospective buyer to do a preview, it includes the table of contents page. This may be a good reason to include chapter names along with the chapter numbers in a table of contents. It gives the reader another enticement to purchase the book.

This was such good info. Thank you so much. I've been so close to giving up but you've made me feel like there's light at the end of the tunnel. Can I share this on my facebook?

Been waiting for this for *awhile* very helpful, thanks Wynter! In the future, for novels after the Skinwalkers/Thick as Blood trilogy, would you ever consider doing a hardcover through IngramSpark/Lulu, I mean I love the designs of your paperbacks but I think in the future your books would be so cool to have in hardback

Wynter Cannatelli tell us about copy editing how you make perfect paragraphs? how to divide words of the end of the line paragraph sentence?

Was this formatting for paperback or was this for an ebook? Still great tutorial I learned so much. GREAT video. Thank you so much. This video will be played over and over again.

Tour tutorial is excellent. My biggest issue is that I do not have the exact configuration as you do in my Word program -- especially whenever you go to what you are calling "popouts." And yet my Word program is up to date, a 2019 version, all updated. Can you tell me HOW I get the same kind of popout windows that you have?

Wynter I watched your video, How I Format My Novels For Print For KDP. Since it is 3 years old, do you have a recent video covering same info?

Great video! Thank you for explaining this whole thing with page numbers!! Do you recommend for the inside margins of a 300-500 pg book to be .9"? I'm trying to figure this out... I thought that KDP recommended .625" for the gutter (which I thought was the entire inside margin), I didn't think that you needed to add their outside margins recommendation to their gutter recommendation to make the inside margin?

Very informative video. Will these formatting templates work for a poetry book as well?

If you were to add headers to your pages (book name/author name) what size would you recommend them to be? Same as the page numbers or larger?

What font or fonts do you use or recommend?

It’s possible for you to do the same kinda video, but making for poetry book?

Thank you for the video. Pls I need your help. I have a free ebook I downloaded from a PLR website. I want know exactly what I will need to do with the ebook manuscript before uploading it to the kindle account. Will I need to work on the ebook again or Will I upload the ebook copy I downloaded to the kindle account without on the ebook again . Please help me, looking forward hearing from you. Thank you.

Hi! I watched your video and had one quick question for editing! I’ve followed all your instructions but I’m not sure if I missed this: how many spaces down should your chapter headings be and should you use a specific font for headings (like the same one as your title cover font) or use the same font as your chapter text? Thank you, ma’am!

I’ve got a poetry book I’m working on ( 26 pages). I’ve heard praise for Jutoh & have Kinfle Create, should I switch?

One question: Should I use section breaks or page breaks in between chapters? I downloaded a KDP paperback template and it had section breaks after each chapter but I always thought it was supposed to be page breaks.

Hello, How important is to convert your word document to PDF? A submitted a .doc file last night and the launch previewer looked great. Any idea?

Does amazon charge more for a 5 x 8 print book than the popular 6 x 9? Please answer, thanks.

So, I"m coming back to this because I have what may very well be a very dumb question. When you say "page count" do you mean actual page count or sheet count? Because three hundred pages would equate to 150 sheets of paper. So if we are formatting for 300 pages doesn't that mess with things? Or am I over thinking it?

I have a basic question to ask about font, as you have a different version of word than me and it is hard to see what the setting is, but do you have your font set to bold or no bold?

is this the same formatting you use for you ebook version?

I’m stuck. I uploaded my book in Kindle Care. The TOC was made . Good, right? No. It’s missing chapters. I can’t insert. Put the curser into, delete, or add to it. I have read everything on KDP related to this. I’m so stuck. I even tried uploading a new manuscript with my own TOC

Also do you use a computer or laptop because my Microsoft word is very different on my tablet then what yours looks like

Would you say that a size twelve text would be good for a book thats 5" by 8"

I was thinking of buying a laptop to be able to use Microsoft word because it would make things so much easier. Is there a certain laptop or computer anyone would recommend? Thanks

I don't have a computer I only have a tablet what do you think I should use to type up and edit my book so I can turn it into a PDF. Like is there a certain website or app you recommended. I'm stumped. Plz help thanks

I don't know if you'd know the answer to this, but whenever I try to submit it to kdp the comment pane is showing up from this editing service I used years ago. Is there a way to take that comment pane out completely, without having to retype my entire 458 novel from scratch? Every time I hit control a, to copy it I guess it continues to copy the pane as well. Which is a pain in my ass : D

Dunno...shouldn't chapters begin on the next recto? (odd page) If so, then you'd go to Section Break > Odd Page, right?

Kdp already gives you templates with the margins

how to make perfect WORD SPACING in justify?????

Setting up your book so your chapters start on odd pages is much easier than the method you're using. Use Section Break Odd page, not Section Break Even Page and Section Break Next Page, or adding Page Breaks to start your chapters on odd pages. Section Break Odd Page starts all of your chapters on odd pages automatically, regardless of any changes that you make to your manuscript. For anyone watching...learn how to use styles. Global changes in one click...not hunting and clicking.

gourmand, size 11, no line spacing.

Hi could u make video people no skills to write novel any tips

No headers??