1 Reply by Preacher

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Vern, you're right. and thanks! i will put it all to rest by ordering a copy of word for dummies and going from there.

thanks, again!

greg

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2 Reply by Preacher

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I use word 2010 for my documents. I was fooling around with the paragraph styles and kind of set one up that has the times new roman and 12 pt font size. what about the margins or whatever they call it? is it supposed to be a ceetain number for each side. i currently have it set for justify left, times new roman, 12 pt font with the .5 indent for the first paragraph of each sentence. is there anything else i should include for a normal paragraph style?

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seems like the formatting standards are a fluid thing. Ive seen many different answers to this question. But what I want is what seems to be the most common way to format a manuscript. SOmeone told me 8 pt is now the size and in Times New Roman. I always thought it was 12 pt and courier or new courier to make it look like it came off a typewriter. Whatever those are is fine. I would love to see what is sandard for the formatting issue.

Also, i am a user of microsoft word and do not really know how to use many of the features available there. i would want to find out how to set up the paragraphs and other things like the headers and stuff like that. is there a guie or something i can look at to show me how to set up word to do all of this so i do not have to keep tinkering as i write.

thanks all and have a great day.

greg

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4 Topic by Preacher

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good afternoon all

my name is greg and i was very active here a long time ago. i was working, at the time, on my first novel, Preacher's Blood. With a lot of work and help here I ended up self-publishing on Amazon. I wanted to come back to see what was going on here and to try and get some advice.....

I am intending on doing a print release of my novel at some point, but would really love to have the manuscript edited for, well, everything! Does anyone know any reliable editors that i might be able to contact to look at my manuscript. Hoppefully there is someone out there within a decent price range. any suggestions would be quite welcome.

thanks and have a good day all

greg

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