Okay, I have a project ready to be sent to an agent, but the .......thing won't hold the format no matter what I do or how many times I edit. anyone out there who has an easy way to overcome this unsavory situation?
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You're going to need to give a lot more information if you want help with your issue. What "...thing" are you talking about? An MS Word file?
Perhaps start with this thread:
"General Manuscript formatting"
http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26126
Also take a look at the FAQs thread stickied to the top of the Novels forum. There's a section on Formatting which has links to several more threads.
You're going to need to give a lot more information if you want help with your issue. What "...thing" are you talking about? An MS Word file?
Perhaps start with this thread:
"General Manuscript formatting"
http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26126
Also take a look at the FAQs thread stickied to the top of the Novels forum. There's a section on Formatting which has links to several more threads.
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If you're pasting a formatted document into an email, (unless your'e using Outlook that is using MS Word as it's editor), your email client will convert the document to text. There's nothing you can do about it, unless you send the document as an attachment, and that's usually a no-no for most agents.
If you're pasting a formatted document into an email, (unless your'e using Outlook that is using MS Word as it's editor), your email client will convert the document to text. There's nothing you can do about it, unless you send the document as an attachment, and that's usually a no-no for most agents.
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And if you are using Outlook and the other person isn't, it can get worse at the other end.
Common solution: Do NOT use "curly quotes", etc. -- replace them with plain quotes and all em-dashes with double dashes, elipses with three periods. Get rid of paragraph indents, and put an empty line between paragraphs (a real empty line, not Word's paragraph spacing). Save the cleaned-up version as RTF instead of DOC or DOCX. Copy and paste from the RTF. It should look decent in HTML e-mail.
Common solution: Do NOT use "curly quotes", etc. -- replace them with plain quotes and all em-dashes with double dashes, elipses with three periods. Get rid of paragraph indents, and put an empty line between paragraphs (a real empty line, not Word's paragraph spacing). Save the cleaned-up version as RTF instead of DOC or DOCX. Copy and paste from the RTF. It should look decent in HTML e-mail.