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the ducks beat me to it! Curses, Foiled Again!

For basic things, it is quite easy. There are buttons for many functions in book view.

So long as you keep it simple, you should not find it hard.

However, spellcheck and search and replace only work in code view.

I always suggest that people starting out wander over to the MR library and download a work and see if they like how it is formatted.

If they do, they can save the stylesheet and then add additional files into the new work to use it. You have to link it to the sections which make up your epub by right clicking link spreadsheet and ticking a box. Not hard at all.

Images need to be added via the same procedure before they can be used. This two step process allow you to use the same image over and over, such as at the head of a chapter without putting into your document however many times you use it.

It is suggested that you make breaks at each chapter for easy in editing and because some older readers don't like sections over 260k and new ones bog down if the sections are too large.

Once you decide you must have fancy formatting is where you will need to understand HTML and some css styling things. It is true also if your souce is very bad and full of junk. Regular Expressions (REGEX) are very useful, but not very easy.

Give it a spin on a small document at first and see how it goes. Just save as a lot in case you have to go back to the one before after changing something you didn't mean to.