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Thursday night job: open your manuscript and check one chapter title.
Is it Heading 1, or just bold Normal text? Fix that one style tonight. Tomorrow the automatic TOC has something solid to build from.
Night owls. What's the fiddliest bit of Word for your book so far: headings, page numbers, the TOC, or section breaks?
4. For Kindle, make sure each entry is a working link. Test every chapter jump on a phone-sized screen before you upload.
Readers who tap your contents still need clean sentences on the page they land on.
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Nesting matters. Heading 1 for chapters, Heading 2 for sections inside them.
If every title is Heading 1, your automatic TOC becomes a flat wall of text. Two levels give readers a map they can actually scan.
Hot take: a messy table of contents is a louder warning sign than a plain cover.
Wrong page numbers, missing chapters, or links that go nowhere tell the reader the rest of the book may be careless too.
Your Kindle contents and your paperback contents are not the same thing.
Kindle wants a clickable list with no page numbers. Print wants page numbers. Our guide shows how to set up both in Word, and what to update before you export. Link below 👇
Clickable Kindle TOC and page-number print TOC, step by step in Word: hmdpublishing.com/blog/how-t…
For Kindle, keep the TOC near the front of the file.
Readers expect to jump to a chapter from the menu. If your contents sit after a long dedication and three essays, fewer people will find it, and fewer will finish the sample.
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