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Kratos · 04-01-2011, 02:16 PM

Hi. Please can you give some advice as I seem to be experiencing the same problem.

Using Word I gave each chapter title the Heading 1 style which I customised so it is at the top left of the page, large font, bold and underlined. I created a table of contents in the document with Word's in built toc creator. I have converted my doc file with mobipocket into a prc.

When I open the prc in either my Kindle 3 or Kindle for PC strange stuff happens to the chapter titles. If on the table of contents I click on Chapter 1 it takes me to chapter 1 and it looks fine, the chapter title is at the very top of the page (although not bold). If I press forward on the Kindle and back it looks okay, sometimes it changes, but if I press back and then forward it always looks different, it is lower in the page. I have tried experimenting and sometimes the chapter title is the same as regular text, sometimes bold, sometimes it isn't. With different versions of my prc sometimes the results are reversed; clicking from the toc takes me to a chapter with an 'odd' heading, whilst flicking through the chapter pages gives me the correct formatting. But always clicking left from the chapter title page and then back to it gives me a different result. (I hope you understand what Im trying to say).

I thought It might be caused by how i put my .doc together so I took my original word file and removed all formatting and rebuilt it from the bottom up, just in case the doc 'remembered' the old formatting but it hasn't helped. Good to see that it is a bug and I'm not mental

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I've read and reread your explanation above but it i get a bit confused. I don't know html, but I will try anything. Is there a way to prevent this when creating a doc. How can I remedy this please?

04-01-2011, 02:16 PM	#9
Kratos Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle 3, iPhone, iPad, PC	Hi. Please can you give some advice as I seem to be experiencing the same problem. Using Word I gave each chapter title the Heading 1 style which I customised so it is at the top left of the page, large font, bold and underlined. I created a table of contents in the document with Word's in built toc creator. I have converted my doc file with mobipocket into a prc. When I open the prc in either my Kindle 3 or Kindle for PC strange stuff happens to the chapter titles. If on the table of contents I click on Chapter 1 it takes me to chapter 1 and it looks fine, the chapter title is at the very top of the page (although not bold). If I press forward on the Kindle and back it looks okay, sometimes it changes, but if I press back and then forward it always looks different, it is lower in the page. I have tried experimenting and sometimes the chapter title is the same as regular text, sometimes bold, sometimes it isn't. With different versions of my prc sometimes the results are reversed; clicking from the toc takes me to a chapter with an 'odd' heading, whilst flicking through the chapter pages gives me the correct formatting. But always clicking left from the chapter title page and then back to it gives me a different result. (I hope you understand what Im trying to say). I thought It might be caused by how i put my .doc together so I took my original word file and removed all formatting and rebuilt it from the bottom up, just in case the doc 'remembered' the old formatting but it hasn't helped. Good to see that it is a bug and I'm not mental . I've read and reread your explanation above but it i get a bit confused. I don't know html, but I will try anything. Is there a way to prevent this when creating a doc. How can I remedy this please? Last edited by Kratos; 04-01-2011 at 02:38 PM.