A Google Docs™ add-on for authors
Book Formatter cleans up long novels directly in Google Docs™. It applies consistent chapters, paragraphs, spacing, and page styles while preserving your words and intentional italics.
Install from Google Workspace MarketplaceBuilt for novels, submissions, print preparation, and KDP workflows.
The station clock had stopped at a quarter past midnight, though the rain kept moving across the glass. Clara stood beneath it with the letter folded in her coat pocket.
She had read the last line so often that she no longer knew whether it sounded like a promise or a warning. Come before the first snow.
A whistle rose beyond the dark platform. She closed her hand around the paper and stepped toward the light.
What it does
You keep the writing. Book Formatter handles the accumulated formatting problems that appear across a long document.
Apply one coherent system to chapters, body text, scene breaks, spacing, and page structure across the document.
Your words stay untouched. Intentional italics remain italic, and the formatter does not rewrite your prose.
Bring chapters from Word, ChatGPT, Claude, or another writing tool into Google Docs™ and remove inconsistent styling.
Made for real manuscripts
You do not need to rebuild your novel in a new editor. Open the sidebar in Google Docs™, choose your formatting, and apply it to the manuscript.
Format your novel without leaving Google Docs™.
Install Book Formatter