#Ms word

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[littlesolo]

Microsoft Word

[yunami11]

Argenti is actually the HAW to Boothill’s YEE. A perhaps unfunny headcanon edit meme thingy I made w my art :’,)

[tubes-the-ann]

[physalian]

Hey so you can format your ebook in MS Word.

This is a *very* quick demo that I threw together as an example. These are for publshing on places that use PDFs, not .epubs, like Ko-Fi. I use .epubs so I'm not super knowledgable on which sites prefer PDFs.

And the crucial part and appeal of ebooks is that the're reflowable. Which means that the end user picks the font size and shape for their e-reader and personal experience. A regular MS Word PDF isn't reflowable.

There are ways to do it fully, and tediously, to make it reflowable with Word, I just didn't bother, but there are tutorials out there. This is post is specifically for PDFs.

If you're not loading a book into an e-reader, you can use MS word to still make your PDF *look* like a print book.

Saying this now because in trying to read a book printed on 8.5x11 legal paper with those margins is a little tough.

And it's not hard, either. You just go into the layout settings and change it from "Letter" to something more fitting of a standard book page size. I picked A5 for this example.

Drop-Cap is also a super simple option, then set the text to align justified, add your page numbers, and boom.

I will say, though, that as someone with a pretty intense need for full creative freedom, MS Word is infamous for being finnicky and difficult when you try to get complicated beyond black and white text on the page, doing any sort of fancy formatting especially with images.

This is what I did in Adobe InDesign, a program built for the layout and design of print media used by professionals across industries:

I made that chapter art and my first chapter pages don't have page numbers by choice. This is the full print-ready page of the PDF I send to my printers, not the .epub file.

You do not need InDesign, there are plenty of programs out there (like Vellum) with less of a learning curve and more plug-and-play options. ID is just what I use because I already know it.

MS Word is good enough for what it's good for, and if you are giving people PDFs to read, it doesn't take much to make their reading experience that much more enjoyable by making it *look* like an actual book, not just a Word document.

[milniar-problemsolved]

I can't find a single how-to-turn-fic-into-book video that actually describes how to take the fic out of the website and into word :( they all start with how to format it, but not the "press this button to download fic and then press this button to put what you downloaded in word"

I don't know how to use word :((((((

[nixcraft]

[disneyprincessdxminatrix]

Powerpoint and Word are partners, lovers even. Excel is some kind of nerd that gets shoved into a locker. Access and Publisher are the high end couple barely anyone dares to talk to. And Outlook is.. kind of a whore.

[bethanydelleman]

Writing on my resume "proficient in MS Word" while also trying not to disturb the formatting at all because I have no idea how to reproduce it without sacrificing a baby to its dark magic.

[brotherorpheus]

[tubes-the-ann]

I was bored while doing IT school work and made this.

My methods have only gotten more sophisticated as I arrive home today and mess around more.

yeap.

[red-nite-mare]

Doing an assignment for uni using the online MS word and...

No... No I don't think that's right...

[wemlygust]

If your Microsoft 365 Subscription Price went up, this is relevant to you:

Hoping this saves someone some $$$$. In short, Microsoft auto-upgraded people on the Basic tier of their 365 subscription to the middle tier that includes copilot (with no option to turn it off), renamed the middle tier to Basic, and renamed the original Basic tier AND hid it from the subscription types options, in hopes that people won't realize they've just been auto-"upgraded" to a more expensive tier that also allows them to train their AI on your work. If you contact Microsoft support and are stubborn, or possibly (according to some of the comments on that youtube video) if you turn off auto-renewal and then look at options for re-subscribing, you can still get the original Basic tier that you had before, for the same price as you had before. Given that they are obviously not trustworthy has a subscription service, though, I'd recommend instead trying the LibreOffice (my personal favorite) or OpenOffice software suites (including Word Processor software, Spreadsheets software, etc) - both of which are 100% free. And both of which can save documents in Microsoft 365 formats so that others can still open and read your documents using Microsoft products.

[sparklywaistcoat]

Two reasons why you should not trust computer- or AI-assisted proofreading tools:

I misspelled "between" as "betwen." MS Word Editor didn't catch it and gave me a 100% correct score.

I misspelled "essentially" as "esssentially." MS Word Editor didn't catch it and gave me a 100% correct score.

[mildew-dread-mold]

ms. word is a beautiful name for a distinguished lady

[herefortheships]

I'm gonna purchase a full MS Office license eventually, but for now I don't want to spend money on that when there are other free word processors out there 😅. I only ever used MS Word and Excel.