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Old 10-14-2011, 06:03 PM   #7
Viper187
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
Or write in .txt using an app like Notepad, where there is no formatting. Once you're finished, you import your .txt files- I like to have one for each chapter- and apply formatting as needed.

Best part is, going nuclear simply means reverting back to your original .txt files.
That's what I did in the first place. Apparently, the difference in line breaks from a linux text editor is too complicated for Smashwords to compensate for and OpenOffice doesn't appear to have the option of saving it correctly as a Word doc. That's why I had to boot a Windows machine and copy the damn thing line by line into MS Word.

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