Let me tell you, the output was outrageously complicated, not so much in the look in feel of the copy as in the editing phase. The html code looked like an ancient foreign language.
This lead me to research html for beginners. Thankfully, the web was (and still is) filled with instructions for html coding. I dug in, opened my file in Notepad, and began deleting all the extraneous Word stuff in the coding. Trial and error, undo and save, hit and miss, start anew ... eventually the newsletter made it to the web in (almost) perfect coding.
Remembering all this made my decision not to format my ebook directly from Word easy.
What made it even easier?
I came across a nine-part post by Guido Henkel titled Take pride in your eBook formatting. Suddenly, the task is turning from a dark and stormy night to a breezy, sunny day. If you haven't seen the post, take a look at it and you'll understand that the task of formatting doesn't have to weigh you down.
Henkel recommended some editing software but I've been using a free and extremely easy program called html kit, which I found back then, so I'm using that.
Granted, the conversion will take time, but right now it's looking up.
(For those who need an even tighter, more thorough look at formatting for Kindle, check out this book.)
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(See Part One of the journey)
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