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Kindle Create Add-In Beta, Kindle Create, and the Kindle Previewer are powerful authoring tools which are offered to you at no cost by Kindle Direct Publishing. Sadly, many authors don’t know how to get the most out of Microsoft Word and the KDP publishing applications. These authoring tools are being developed at an astonishing rate. Microsoft Word is constantly adding new features, and KDP is quickly developing their applications. Since I started writing this book three months ago, KDP has added manuals and versions. The Kindle Previewer has released two versions! The practical results of this information explosion are several. KDP’s instructions are hard to follow, difficult to relate to your version of Word, and are scattered throughout help pages and manuals.If you’re like me, you’re struggling to publish your first or second book. You’re wasting hours trying to edit your book and to upload it to Kindle Direct Publishing. I tired of wrestling with KDP, and I decided it was time to learn to use MS Word as a publishing tool and to learn how to set up a manuscript so that it could be uploaded to KDP.My research convinced me that a writer’s best investment is new technology, Kindle Create Add-In and Microsoft Word 365. I’ll teach you what I’ve learned through time consuming trial and error. I’ll walk you through an efficient publishing process in a step-by-step non-technical fashion beginning with getting your MS Word manuscript into a form which the KDP publishing platform will accept.The specific benefits you’ll derive from learning how to get the most from the Kindle Create Add-In or the Kindle Create tools for Microsoft Word are several. First, the Kindle Create Add-In is easy to use, and it offers several professional book layouts. Second, you can streamline your editing and formatting process. This keeps you in control of your manuscript, and you won’t spend endless hours trying to get the page numbers or the headers and footers to come out as you wish them t