Chapter 3
Formatting Normal Style
By now the Styles and Formatting Window is
on the Right of your main Word Window. If you hover the mouse over Normal Style
you get a “Sneak Preview” as shown in this Screenshot.
This is in fact my own settings for Normal
Style, as used on numerous books for indie authors via our formatting service at
coversareus.com.
Then if you click the down arrow on the
Right you get this drop-down menu, in which you select Modify.
The main Modify Window is shown below, and
you should set yours the same or similar, and then go to Paragraph at lower
Left.
A secondary Window then allows you to
nominate your preferred First Line Indent, Space Below etc.
The Line and Page Breaks tab gives further
options and we recommend to turn off the Widows/Orphans Control. There is some
debate that by turning it off you will not get “broken paragraphs”, so it is up
to you, but it certainly has solved that issue for us.
And that is all you need to do in order to
set up Normal Style as you want it. If you wished, you could also make a New
Style and call it say Normal1 which has no first line indent, to be used for the
first paragraph in a Chapter.
