{"id":262,"date":"2023-11-19T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.walnutpublication.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:14:58","slug":"how-to-prepare-manuscript-for-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walnutpublication.com\/blog\/how-to-prepare-manuscript-for-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare Manuscript for Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interior design of the book should be structurally organised and as polished as possible. Here are some of the general guidelines that will help authors to format their manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things an author can do to format their manuscript in Microsoft Word is to set appropriate margins by clicking on the \u2018Page Layout tab\u2019 and setting the margins to 1.52 cm on all sides. 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