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Type setting with Word - don't do it!

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I think the computer gremlins might be working on my side now. We fell out of favour with each other and it may be tempting fate to even the voice the idea but I think the latest pdf is not only in the right format but also the right size for my chosen paper size. The problem with earlier submissions was that everything looked okay on my screen but wasn't producing the expected result on the Lightning Source system. To complicate matters I was submitting not only the revised textblock for The Horsepower Whisperer but also the textblock for The Wormton Lamb. Both used the same template and both were either too small or too big, never the right size. And there was nothing to indicate why. This was particularly galling because I had successfully uploaded the textblock for The Horsepower Whisperer using this method before Christmas. Something had changed during the interim. I posted a query about this to the Yahoo! Self Publishing blog and the response was that I was using the wrong so...