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Old 06-25-2023, 07:47 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Check your MS Word Styles. Make sure no direct formatting.

Also no headers, footers, page numbers or automatic hyphenation (all those are only for paper / PDF export)

No inches or cm. Only pt (or em if your version of Word supports it. 1em = 12 pt for ebooks, but not for paper!).

Make sure on your dialogue that each part equals one paragraph. Do not use Shift Enter or similar, but just enter. A "shift enter" may translate to a <br />

Should be
<p class="some-body">Arriving in San Francisco we were transported to the Victorian home we had arranged to rent in Pacific Heights located high on a hill overlooking the city. We were entranced by the sparkling waters of the bay and I remarked it wouldn’t be surprising if someday they figured out how to build a bridge across there.</p>
<p class="some-body">“Something’s shaking...”</p>
<p class="some-body">“What’s that rumbling noise? Sounds like...”</p>

Don't enter blank lines to space, instead have a paragraph style that adds non-zero top (& optionally bottom) margins.

Have the regular body text style for narration and dialogue have a first-line-indent value. A paragraph style for after a heading or scene break can have a zero first line indent margin.

Don't set any line-spacing
Actually...

Should be
<p>Arriving in San Francisco we were transported to the Victorian home we had arranged to rent in Pacific Heights located high on a hill overlooking the city. We were entranced by the sparkling waters of the bay and I remarked it wouldn’t be surprising if someday they figured out how to build a bridge across there.</p>
<p>“Something’s shaking...”</p>
<p>“What’s that rumbling noise? Sounds like...”</p>

With the style for p in CSS such as...
Code:
p {
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  text-indent: 1.2em;
}
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